Second-order elliptic PDE with discontinuous boundary data

We shall consider the weak formulation of a linear elliptic model problem with discontinuous Dirichlet boundary conditions. Since such problems are typically not well-defined in the standard H^1-H^1 setting, we will introduce a suitable saddle point formulation in terms of weighted Sobolev spaces. F...

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Main Authors: Houston, Paul, Wihler, Thomas P.
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Published: Oxford University Press 2009
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description We shall consider the weak formulation of a linear elliptic model problem with discontinuous Dirichlet boundary conditions. Since such problems are typically not well-defined in the standard H^1-H^1 setting, we will introduce a suitable saddle point formulation in terms of weighted Sobolev spaces. Furthermore, we will discuss the numerical solution of such problems. Specifically, we employ an hp-discontinuous Galerkin method and derive an L^2-norm a posteriori error estimate. Numerical experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed error indicator in both the h- and hp-version setting. Indeed, in the latter case exponential convergence of the error is attained as the mesh is adaptively refined.
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spelling nottingham-12152020-05-04T20:26:06Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/1215/ Second-order elliptic PDE with discontinuous boundary data Houston, Paul Wihler, Thomas P. We shall consider the weak formulation of a linear elliptic model problem with discontinuous Dirichlet boundary conditions. Since such problems are typically not well-defined in the standard H^1-H^1 setting, we will introduce a suitable saddle point formulation in terms of weighted Sobolev spaces. Furthermore, we will discuss the numerical solution of such problems. Specifically, we employ an hp-discontinuous Galerkin method and derive an L^2-norm a posteriori error estimate. Numerical experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed error indicator in both the h- and hp-version setting. Indeed, in the latter case exponential convergence of the error is attained as the mesh is adaptively refined. Oxford University Press 2009-12 Article NonPeerReviewed Houston, Paul and Wihler, Thomas P. (2009) Second-order elliptic PDE with discontinuous boundary data. IMA Journal of Numerical Analysis . ISSN 0272-4979 (Submitted) http://imajna.oxfordjournals.org/
spellingShingle Houston, Paul
Wihler, Thomas P.
Second-order elliptic PDE with discontinuous boundary data
title Second-order elliptic PDE with discontinuous boundary data
title_full Second-order elliptic PDE with discontinuous boundary data
title_fullStr Second-order elliptic PDE with discontinuous boundary data
title_full_unstemmed Second-order elliptic PDE with discontinuous boundary data
title_short Second-order elliptic PDE with discontinuous boundary data
title_sort second-order elliptic pde with discontinuous boundary data
url https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/1215/
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