$L^1$-Approximation of Stationary Hamilton-Jacobi Equations

  • Authors:
  • Jean-Luc Guermond;Bojan Popov

  • Affiliations:
  • guermond@math.tamu.edu;popov@math.tamu.edu

  • Venue:
  • SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

We describe a nonlinear finite element technique to approximate the solutions of stationary Hamilton-Jacobi equations in two space dimensions using continuous finite elements of arbitrary degree. The method consists of minimizing a functional containing the $L^1$-norm of the Hamiltonian plus a discrete entropy. It is shown that the approximate sequence converges to the unique viscosity solution under appropriate hypotheses on the Hamiltonian and the mesh family.