Weak Galerkin finite element methods on polytopal meshes

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zbMATH Open1332.65172arXiv1204.3655MaRDI QIDQ3465259FDOQ3465259


Authors: Lin Mu, Junping Wang, Xiu Ye Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 21 January 2016

Abstract: This paper introduces a new weak Galerkin (WG) finite element method for second order elliptic equations on polytopal meshes. This method, called WG-FEM, is designed by using a discrete weak gradient operator applied to discontinuous piecewise polynomials on finite element partitions of arbitrary polytopes with certain shape regularity. The paper explains how the numerical schemes are designed and why they provide reliable numerical approximations for the underlying partial differential equations. In particular, optimal order error estimates are established for the corresponding WG-FEM approximations in both a discrete H1 norm and the standard L2 norm. Numerical results are presented to demonstrate the robustness, reliability, and accuracy of the WG-FEM. All the results are derived for finite element partitions with polytopes. Allowing the use of discontinuous approximating functions on arbitrary polytopal elements is a highly demanded feature for numerical algorithms in scientific computing.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1204.3655




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