Nonconforming Galerkin methods for the Helmholtz equation (Q2748415)

This article deals with a Helmholtz-like problem consisting in describing pressure waves in a two- or three-dimensional bounded domain with an absorbing boundary condition. In order to solve the problem numerically, a collection of nonconforming Galerkin procedures is examined, as well as domain decomposition iterative methods for actual computations; existence and uniqueness of solution for the weak formulation of those procedures is readily established.NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEConvergence results showing optimal order error estimates are proved for nonconforming methods whose elements are triangles and rectangles in two dimensions (resp. simplices and cubes in three dimensions); those results also hold when the elements are general quadrilaterals. In order to circumvent the difficulty that arises because the bilinear form involved in the weak formulation is noncoercive, a bootstrapping argument of \textit{A. H. Schatz} [Math. Comput. 28, 959-962 (1974; Zbl 0321.65059)] is applied.