Time-discrete higher order ALE formulations: a priori error analysis (Q373222)

The aim in this paper is to prove a priori error estimates for discontinuous Galerkin (dG) time discrete schemes of any order applied to an advection-diffusion model defined on moving domains and written in the arbitrary Lagrangian Eulerian (ALE) framework. The authors' estimates are valid without time step constraints for all \(q \geq 0\) and dG with exact integration and Reynolds' quadrature, but for the practical Runge-Kutta-Radau methods they involve a mild restriction on time steps. The key ingredients are the stability results shown earlier in the authors' paper [SIAM J. Numer. Anal. 51, No. 1, 577-604 (2013; Zbl 1267.65114)] along with a novel ALE projection. Numerical experiments illustrate and complement our theoretical results.