The discontinuous Petrov-Galerkin method (Q6964455)

This review paper is extensive and is dedicated to the discontinuous Petrov-Galerkin (DPG) method. The DPG method is a Petrov-Galerkin finite element method with test functions designed for obtaining stability. The paper is organized as follows. Section 1 is an Introduction. In Section 2, the concept of optimal test functions, which attain the supremum in an inf-sup condition is provided. It is shown that DPG methods can equivalently be thought of as methods that minimize a residual in a non-standard norm, as well as a non-standard mixed method with an approximate error representation as a discrete solution component. Section 3 is dedicated to minimization and other viewpoints. It is shown that DPG methods can equivalently be thought of as methods that minimize a residual in a non-standard norm, as well as a non-standard mixed method with an approximate error representation as a discrete solution component. In Sections 4 and 5 DPG methods are defined. The test space localization technique is introduced precisely in Section 4. The loss of optimality in stability constant and techniques to regain discrete stability despite the inexact computation are the topics covered in Section 5. The built in error estimator contained in all DPG methods is described in Section 6. The wide scope of applicability of DPG methods becomes clearer in Section 7. For illustrating an example of a second-order operator from Schrödinger equation, Poisson equation in first-order form and Helmholtz equation for time-harmonic waves are given in this section. An application of the DPG ideas to design an exponential integrator of optimal test functions for initial value problems is presented in Section 8. Section 9 is devoted to formulations that are dual in a certain sense to the hybrid DPG formulations. The application to estimating error in goal functionals are briefly discussed in this section. In Section 10, a DPG extension is discussed to nonlinear problems by the steepest descent method. The authors concluded this review in Section 11, by giving brief points to topics that they have not covered.