This paper is devoted to the analysis of the discontinuous Galerkin finite element method (DGFEM) applied to the space semidiscretization of a nonlinear nonstationary convection-diffusion Dirichlet problem. General nonconforming simplicial meshes are considered and the SIPG scheme is used. Under the assumption that the exact solution is sufficiently regular an L∞(L2)-optimal error estimate is d...

The fractional Fokker-Planck equation is often used to characterize anomalous diffusion. In this paper, a fully discrete approximation for the nonlinear spatial fractional Fokker-Planck equation is given, where the discontinuous Galerkin finite element approach is utilized in time domain and the Galerkin finite element approach is utilized in spatial domain. The priori error estimate is derived...

The present work is concerned with the analysis of the Discontinuous Galerkin Finite Element Method (DGFEM) for linear • diffusion problems, • elasticity problems,

We propose a new class of Discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods based on variational multiscale ideas. Our approach begins with an additive decomposition of the discontinuous finite element space into continuous (coarse) and discontinuous (fine) components. Variational multiscale analysis is used to define an interscale transfer operator that associates coarse and fine scale functions. Compositio...

In this paper we derive some pointwise error estimates for the local discontinuous Galerkin (LDG) method for solving second-order elliptic problems in RN (N ≥ 2). Our results show that the pointwise errors of both the vector and scalar approximations of the LDG method are of the same order as those obtained in the L2 norm except for a logarithmic factor when the piecewise linear functions are u...

This paper presents a locally conservative finite element method based on enriching the approximation space of the continuous Galerkin method with elementwise constant functions. The proposed method has a smaller number of degrees of freedom than the discontinuous Galerkin method. Numerical examples on coupled flow and transport in porous media are provided to illustrate the advantages of this ...

The goal of this work is to derive and justify a multilevel preconditioner of optimal arithmetic complexity for symmetric interior penalty discontinuous Galerkin finite element approximations of second order elliptic problems. Our approach is based on the following simple idea given in [R.D. Lazarov, P.S. Vassilevski, L.T. Zikatanov, Multilevel preconditioning of second order elliptic discontin...

We consider the hp-version interior penalty discontinuous Galerkin finite element method (hp-DGFEM) for second-order linear reaction-diffusion equations. To the best of our knowledge, the sharpest known error bounds for the hp-DGFEM are due to Riviére, Wheeler and Girault [8] and due to Houston, Schwab and Süli [5] which are optimal with respect to the meshsize h but suboptimal with respect to ...

We consider a non-self-adjoint fourth order eigenvalue problem using a discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method. For high order problems, DG methods are competitive since they use simple basis functions and have less degrees of freedom. The numerical implementation is much easier compared with classical finite element methods. In this paper, we propose an interior penalty discontinuous Galerkin metho...

In this paper, we derive a priori error estimates for a class of interior penalty discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods using immersed finite element (IFE) functions for a classic second-order elliptic interface problem. The error estimation shows that these methods can converge optimally in a mesh-dependent energy norm. The combination of IFEs and DG formulation in these methods allows local mes...