Discontinuous Galerkin Methods for Second-Order Elliptic PDE with Low-Regularity Solutions

  • Authors:
  • Thomas P. Wihler;Béatrice Rivière

  • Affiliations:
  • Mathematics Institute, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland 3012;Computational and Applied Mathematics Department, Rice University, Houston, USA TX 77005-1892

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Scientific Computing
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

In this paper we derive an a priori error analysis for interior penalty discontinuous Galerkin finite element discretizations of the Poisson equation with exact solution in W 2,p , p驴(1,2]. We show that the DGFEM converges at an optimal algebraic rate with respect to the number of degrees of freedom.