Analysis of a discontinuous galerkin method for heterogeneous diffusion problems with low-regularity solutions

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Abstract

We study the convergence of the Symmetric Weighted Interior Penalty discontinuous Galerkin method for heterogeneous diffusion problems with low-regularity solutions only belonging to W 2, p with p ε (1,2]. In 2d, we infer an optimal algebraic convergence rate. In any space dimension d, we achieve the same result for p > 2 d/(d + 2). We also prove convergence without algebraic rates for exact solutions only belonging to the energy space.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1161-1177
Number of pages17
JournalNumerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations
Volume28
Issue number4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jul 2012

Keywords

  • discontinuous Galerkin
  • error analysis
  • heterogeneous diffusion

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