In this paper, we examine the discontinuous Galerkin (DG) finite element approximation to convex distributed optimal control problems governed by linear parabolic equations, where the discontinuous finite element method is used for the time discretization and the conforming finite element method is used for the space discretization. We derive a posteriori error estimates for both the state and ...

We summarize several techniques of analysis for finite element methods for linear hyperbolic problems, illustrating their key properties on the simplest model problem. These include the discontinuous Galerkin method, the continuous Galerkin methods on rectangles and triangles, and a nonconforming linear finite element on a special triangular mesh.

We consider a discontinuous Galerkin finite element method for the advection–reaction equation in two space–dimensions. For polynomial approximation spaces of degree greater than or equal to two on triangles we propose a method where stability is obtained by a penalization of only the upper portion of the polynomial spectrum of the jump of the solution over element edges. We prove stability in ...

A family of explicit space-time finite element methods for the initial boundary value problem for linear, symmetric hyperbolic systems of equations is described and analyzed. The method generalizes the discontinuous Galerkin method and, as is typical for this method, obtains error estimates of order O(hn+1/2) for approximations by polynomials of degree ≤ n.

In this paper an implicit fully discrete local discontinuous Galerkin (LDG) finite element method is applied to solve the time-fractional seventh-order Korteweg-de Vries (sKdV) equation, which is introduced by replacing the integer-order time derivatives with fractional derivatives. We prove that our scheme is unconditional stable and L error estimate for the linear case with the convergence ra...

This work presents the coupling of two locally conservative methods for elliptic problems: namely, the discontinuous Galerkin method and the mixed finite element method. The couplings can be defined with or without interface Lagrange multipliers. The formulations are shown to be equivalent. Optimal error estimates are given; penalty terms may or may not be included. In addition, the analysis fo...

In this paper, we introduce a simple method for the Cauchy problem. This new finite element method is based on least squares methodology with discontinuous approximations which can be implemented and analyzed easily. This discontinuous Galerkin finite element method is flexible to work with general unstructured meshes. Error estimates of the finite element solution are derived. The numerical ex...

In this paper, we prove a priori and a posteriori error estimates for a finite element method for linear second order hyperbolic problems (linear wave equations) based on using spacetime finite element discretizations (for displacements and displacement velocities) with (bilinear) basis functions which are continuous in space and discontinuous in time. We refer to methods of this form as discon...

We describe a new iterative, asynchronous, parallel algorithm for the solution of partial diierential equations, based on discontin-uous nite-element methods. We use the domain-decomposition methods to decompose a large problem into a number of smaller problems that can be computed in parallel. These methods facilitate coarse-grain paral-lelism, which is important for exploiting parallelism eec...