A conforming DG method for the biharmonic equation on polytopal meshes

2019/07/22 by Ye, Xiu, Zhang, Shangyou
#FOS: Mathematics #Numerical Analysis (math.NA)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1907.10661

Abstract

A conforming discontinuous Galerkin finite element method is introduced for solving the biharmonic equation. This method, by its name, uses discontinuous approximations and keeps simple formulation of the conforming finite element method at the same time. The ultra simple formulation of the method will reduce programming complexity in practice. Optimal order error estimates in a discrete H² norm is established for the corresponding finite element solutions. Error estimates in the L² norm are also derived with a sub-optimal order of convergence for the lowest order element and an optimal order of convergence for all high order of elements. Numerical results are presented to confirm the theory of convergence.

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