Preasymptotic error analysis of high order interior penalty discontinuous Galerkin methods for the Helmholtz equation with high wave number (Q293100)

The paper deals with the preasymptotic error estimates of the interior penalty discontinuous Galerkin method (IPDG) of high order for the Helmholtz problem \[ -\Delta u-k^2 u =f\text{ in }\Omega, \] \[ \frac{\partial u}{\partial n}+i k u=g\text{ on }\Gamma, \] where \(\Omega\) is a bounded two- or three-dimensional domain with smooth boundary \(\Gamma\), \(n\) denotes the unit outward normal to the boundary and \(i=\sqrt{-1}\) is the imaginary unit. The preasymptotic error estimates include the pollution error which is significant both in theory and practice and is proportional to \(c k(kh)^{2p}\text{inf}_{v_h \in V_h}\frac{\|u-u_h\|_{V}}{\|u\|_{V}}\), \(\beta>0\), where \(h\) is the mesh size, \(p\) is the order of the approximation space, \(k>>1\) is the wave number and \(c\) is a constant independent of \(h,p,k\). Numerical tests verify the theoretical results and illustrate great capability of the symmetric IPDG in reducing the pollution effect.