Abstract. This paper provides a theoretical foundation for interior penalty discontinuous Galerkin methods for second order elliptic equations on very general polygonal or polyhedral meshes. The mesh can be composed of any polygons or polyhedra which satisfies certain shape regularity conditions characterized in a recent paper by two of the authors in [18]. The usual H conforming finite element...

Three Maxwell eigensolvers are discussed in this paper. Two of them use classical nonconforming finite element approximations, and the other is an interior penalty type discontinuous Galerkin method. A main feature of these solvers is that they are based on the formulation of the Maxwell eigenproblem on the space H0(curl; Ω) ∩ H(div; Ω). These solvers are free of spurious eigenmodes and they do...

We describe the spacetime discontinuous Galerkin method, a new type of finite-element method which promises dramatic improvement in solution speed for hyperbolic problems. These methods require the generation of spacetime meshes that satisfy a special causality constraint. This work focuses on the extension of the existing 2d×time spacetime meshing algorithm known as TentPitcher to 3d×time prob...

In this note we consider residual-based a posteriori error estimation for finite element approximations of the transport equation. For the discretization we use piecewise affine continuous or discontinuous finite elements and symmetric stabilization of interior penalty type. The lowest order discontinuous Galerkin method using piecewise constant approximation is included as a special case. The ...

We study the convergence properties of the hp-version of the local discontinuous Galerkin finite element method for convection-diffusion problems; we consider a model problem in a one-dimensional space domain. We allow arbitrary meshes and polynomial degree distributions and obtain upper bounds for the energy norm of the error which are explicit in the mesh-width h, in the polynomial degree p, ...

This is the second paper in a series in which we construct and analyze a class of TVB (total variation bounded) discontinuous Galerkin finite element methods for solving conservation laws ut + Ed I(fi(u))xi = 0. In this paper we present a general framework of the methods, up to any order of formal accuracy, using scalar one-dimensional initial value and initial-boundary problems as models. In t...

We deal with the numerical solution of time-dependent convection-diffusion-reaction equations. We combine the local projection stabilization method for the space discretization with two different time discretization schemes: the continuous Galerkin-Petrov (cGP) method and the discontinuous Galerkin (dG) method of polynomial of degree k. We establish the optimal error estimates and present numer...

Abstract. Discontinuous Galerkin (DG) and mixed finite element (MFE) methods are two popular methods that possess local mass conservation. In this paper we investigate DG-DG and DG-MFE domain decomposition couplings using mortar finite elements to impose weak continuity of fluxes and pressures on the interface. The subdomain grids need not match and the mortar grid may be much coarser, giving a...

We consider a variant of the hp-version interior penalty discontinuous Galerkin finite element method (IP-DGFEM) for second order problems of degenerate type. We do not assume uniform ellipticity of the diffusion tensor. Moreover, diffusion tensors of arbitrary form are covered in the theory presented. A new, refined recipe for the choice of the discontinuity-penalisation parameter (that is pre...

DarcyLite is a Matlab toolbox for numerical simulations of flow and transport in 2-dim porous media. This paper focuses on the finite element (FE) methods and the corresponding code modules in DarcyLite for solving the Darcy equation. Specifically, four major types of finite element solvers, the continuous Galerkin (CG), the discontinuous Galerkin (DG), the weak Galerkin (WG), and the mixed fin...