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Quasi-optimal nonconforming methods for symmetric elliptic problems. III -- DG and other interior penalty methods

Numerical Analysis 2017-10-11 v1

Abstract

We devise new variants of the following nonconforming finite element methods: DG methods of fixed arbitrary order for the Poisson problem, the Crouzeix-Raviart interior penalty method for linear elasticity, and the quadratic C0C^0 interior penalty method for the biharmonic problem. Each variant differs from the original method only in the discretization of the right-hand side. Before applying the load functional, a linear operator transforms nonconforming discrete test functions into conforming functions such that stability and consistency are improved. The new variants are thus quasi-optimal with respect to an extension of the energy norm. Furthermore, their quasi-optimality constants are uniformly bounded for shape regular meshes and tend to 11 as the penalty parameter increases.

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@article{arxiv.1710.03452,
  title  = {Quasi-optimal nonconforming methods for symmetric elliptic problems. III -- DG and other interior penalty methods},
  author = {Andreas Veeser and Pietro Zanotti},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1710.03452},
  year   = {2017}
}