A uniform additive Schwarz preconditioner for high-order discontinuous Galerkin approximations of elliptic problems (Q520197)

Design and analysis of a preconditioner scheme choice for a class of high-order discontinuous Galerkin approximations of elliptic problems is presented. Such a preconditioner choice is based on a space splitting which involves the high-order conforming subspace as a result of the considered problem interpretation as a nearly-singular one. The proposed preconditioner algorithm leads to spectral bounds that turn out to be uniform with respect to the discretization parameters, namely, mesh size, polynomial degree and penalization coefficients. Theoretical estimates, valid for the Poisson problem with homogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions on convex polygonal/polyhedral domains in two or three dimensions, are supported by numerical tests thereby discussed. These 2-d computer experiments are carried over in a convincing set of varying parameters.