The Discontinuous Galerkin Method with Diffusion

DOI10.2307/2153206MaRDI QIDQ4024680zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Publication date 10 February 1993

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.2307/2153206

convection-diffusion equations discontinuous Galerkin method error estimates

Boundary value problems for linear higher-order PDEs (35G15) Error bounds for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N15) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N30)

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Let \(\Omega\subset \mathbb{R}^ 2\) be a bounded polygon and \(\alpha=(\alpha_ 1,\alpha_ 2)\) a unit vector. The author considers the following class of constant-coefficient convection-diffusion equations: (1) \(u_ \alpha-\sigma_ 1u_{xx}-\sigma_ 2u_{yy}=f\), where \((x,y)\in \Omega\), \(u_ \alpha=\alpha\cdot\bigtriangledown u\) and \(\sigma_ 1\) and \(\sigma_ 2\) are nonnegative. Equation (1) may be hyperbolic, parabolic or elliptic depending upon the number of nonzero diffusion coefficients which appear. The following extension of the discontinuous Galerkin method is proposed to (1): \[ \begin{multlined} (u_ \alpha^ h- \sigma_ 1u_{xx}^ h- \sigma_ 2u_{yy}^ h,v^ h)- \int_{\Gamma_{in}(T)}[(u^ h)^ +-(u^ h)^ -]v^ h\alpha\cdot n+\\ \int_{\Gamma_{in}^*(T)}\{\sigma_ 1[(u_ x^ h)^ +-(u_ x^ h)^ -]n_ 1+\sigma_ 2[(u_ y^ h)^ +- (u_ y^ h)^ - ]n_ 2\}v^ h=(f,v^ h), \quad \text{for all}\quad v^ h\in P_ n(T).\end{multlined}\tag{2} \] Here \(\Gamma_{in}(\Omega)\) is the ``inflow portion of \(\Gamma=\partial\Omega\) defined by \(\alpha\cdot n<0\), \(T\) is a generic triangle of the triangulation, \(P_ n(T)\) is the space of polynomials of degree \(\leq n\), \(\Gamma_{in}^*(T)\) denotes those sides of \(\Gamma_{in}(T)\) which are not part of \(\Gamma_{in}(\Omega)\); \(n_ 1\), \(n_ 2\) are \(x\), \(y\)-components of the unit outer normal to \(T\). The main theorem of the paper provides error estimates for \(u^ h\). The performed analysis is based on the nonalignment condition (3) \(| \alpha\cdot n| \geq c>0\), which means that the triangle sides are to be bounded away from the characteristic direction (\(\Omega\) is divided into a quasi-uniform mesh of triangles of side length \(h\)). Two specific examples (elliptic and parabolic equations) illustrate the used method.

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