Optimal convergence rates for semidiscrete approximations of parabolic problems with nonsmooth boundary data

1991 ◽  
Vol 12 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 469-485
Author(s):  
Gilbert Choudury ◽  
Irena Lasiecka
2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 155-182 ◽  
Author(s):  
Igor Voulis ◽  
Arnold Reusken

Abstract We consider time discretization methods for abstract parabolic problems with inhomogeneous linear constraints. Prototype examples that fit into the general framework are the heat equation with inhomogeneous (time-dependent) Dirichlet boundary conditions and the time-dependent Stokes equation with an inhomogeneous divergence constraint. Two common ways of treating such linear constraints, namely explicit or implicit (via Lagrange multipliers) are studied. These different treatments lead to different variational formulations of the parabolic problem. For these formulations we introduce a modification of the standard discontinuous Galerkin (DG) time discretization method in which an appropriate projection is used in the discretization of the constraint. For these discretizations (optimal) error bounds, including superconvergence results, are derived. Discretization error bounds for the Lagrange multiplier are presented. Results of experiments confirm the theoretically predicted optimal convergence rates and show that without the modification the (standard) DG method has sub-optimal convergence behavior.


2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 341-357
Author(s):  
Ronghong Fan ◽  
Yanru Liu ◽  
Shuo Zhang

AbstractIn this paper, stable mixed formulations are designed and analyzed for the quad div problems under two frameworks presented in [23] and [22], respectively. Analogue discretizations are given with respect to the mixed formulation, and optimal convergence rates are observed, which confirm the theoretical analysis.


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