Exact projections and the Lagrange-Galerkin method: A realistic alternative to quadrature (Q1331440)

The paper presents an extensive study of the instability of the Lagrange- Galerkin method when quadratures are applied in the evaluation of integrals. In a number of theorems instability is proved for much wider classes of quadrature formulae than previously thought. To deal with the problem a new approximate integration technique on triangular grids is proposed. It recovers the unconditional stability of the Lagrange- Galerkin method without loss in accuracy. The same technique can also be used for the exact projection of data from one arbitrary triangular grid to another, different, arbitrary triangular grid.