Hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin methods for second-order elliptic problems: overview, a new result and open problems (Q6072372)

This paper summarizes the development of the hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin (HDG) methods, since their origin in 2009 until now. The author describes their development of the so-called hybridized mixed (HM) methods and how it prompted the introduction of the \(M\)-decompositions as a novel tool for the construction of superconvergent HM and HDG methods for elements of quite general shapes. Then the new link between HM and HDG methods is described, namely, that any HM method can be rewritten as an HDG method by a suitable transformation of a subspace of the approximate fluxes of the HM method into a stabilization function. Finally, the list of 13 open problems is formulated as a direct consequence of the presented results.