Discontinuous Galerkin methods for anisotropic semidefinite diffusion with advection

Daniele A. Di Pietro, Alexandre Ern, Jean Luc Guermond

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Abstract

We construct and analyze a discontinuous Galerkin method to solve advectiondiffusion-reaction PDEs with anisotropic and semidefinite diffusion. The method is designed to automatically detect the so-called elliptic/hyperbolic interface on fitted meshes. The key idea is to use consistent weighted average and jump operators. Optimal estimates in the broken graph norm are proven. These are consistent with well-known results when the problem is either hyperbolic or uniformly elliptic. The theoretical results are supported by numerical evidence.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)805-831
Number of pages27
JournalSIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis
Volume46
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 12 Nov 2008

Keywords

  • Advection-diffusion-reaction
  • Anisotropic diffusion
  • Coupled elliptic-hyperbolic
  • Discontinuous Galerkin
  • Discontinuous coefficients
  • Weighted averages

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