Discontinuous hp-Finite Element Methods for Advection-Diffusion-Reaction Problems

  • Authors:

  • Paul Houston;Christoph Schwab;Endre Süli

  • Affiliations:

  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

We consider the hp-version of the discontinuous Galerkin finite element method (DGFEM) for second-order partial differential equations with nonnegative characteristic form. This class of equations includes second-order elliptic and parabolic equations, advection-reaction equations, as well as problems of mixed hyperbolic-elliptic-parabolic type. Our main concern is the error analysis of the method in the absence of streamline-diffusion stabilization. In the hyperbolic case, an hp-optimal error bound is derived; here, we consider only advection-reaction problems which satisfy a certain (standard) positivity condition. In the self-adjoint elliptic case, an error bound that is h-optimal and p-suboptimal by $\frac{1}{2}$ a power of p is obtained. These estimates are then combined to deduce an error bound in the general case. For elementwise analytic solutions the method exhibits exponential rates of convergence under p-refinement. The theoretical results are illustrated by numerical experiments.