A local a priori and a posteriori analysis is developed for the Galerkin method with discontinuous finite elements for solving stationary diffusion problems. The main results are an optimal-order estimate for the point-wise error and a corresponding a posteriori error bound. The proofs are based on weighted -norm error estimates for discrete Green functions as already known for the ‘continuous’...

Abstract. We consider numerical approximations of incompressible Newtonian fluids having variable, possibly discontinuous, density and viscosity. Since solutions of the equations with variable density and viscosity may not be unique, numerical schemes may not converge. If the solution is unique, then approximate solutions computed using the discontinuous Galerkin method to approximate the conve...

In this paper, a priori error estimates for space-time finite element discretizations of optimal control problems governed by semilinear parabolic PDEs and subject to pointwise control constraints are derived. We extend the approach from [23, 24], where linear-quadratic problems have been considered, discretizing the state equation by usual conforming finite elements in space and a discontinuou...

We analyze an adaptive discontinuous finite element method (ADFEM) for symmetric second order linear elliptic operators. The method is formulated on nonconforming meshes made of simplices or quadrilaterals, with any polynomial degree and in any dimension ≥ 2. We prove that the ADFEM is a contraction for the sum of the energy error and the scaled error estimator, between two consecutive adaptive...

In this paper we propose and analyse a hp-adaptive discontinuous finite element method for computing electromagnetic modes of propagation supported by waveguide structures comprised of a thin lossy metal film of finite width embedded in an infinite homogeneous dielectric. We propose a goal-oriented or dual weighted residual error estimator based on the solution of a dual problem that we use to ...

For solving time-dependent convection-dominated partial differential equations (PDEs), which arise frequently in computational physics, high order numerical methods, including finite difference, finite volume, finite element and spectral methods, have been undergoing rapid developments over the past decades. In this article we give a brief survey of two selected classes of high order methods, n...

where x = (x1, . . . , xd) ∈ IR , t > 0. HJ equations arise in many practical areas such as differential games, mathematical finance, image enhancement and front propagation. It is well known that solutions of (1) are Lipschitz continuous but derivatives can become discontinuous even if the initial data is smooth. There is a close relation between HJ equations and hyperbolic conservation laws. ...

The finite element method (FEM) remains one of the most established computational method used in industry to predict acoustic wave propagation. However, the use of standard FEM is in practice limited to low frequencies because it suffers from large dispersion errors when solving short wave problems (also called pollution effect). Various methods have been developed to circumvent this issue and ...