Optimal superconvergence and asymptotically exact a posteriori error estimator for the local discontinuous Galerkin method for linear elliptic problems on Cartesian grids

Mahboub Baccouch

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Abstract

The purpose of this paper is twofold: to study the superconvergence properties and to present an efficient and reliable a posteriori error estimator for the local discontinuous Galerkin (LDG) method for linear second-order elliptic problems on Cartesian grids. We prove that the LDG solution is superconvergent towards a particular projection of the exact solution. The order of convergence is proved to be p+2, when tensor product polynomials of degree at most p are used. Then, we prove that the actual error can be split into two parts. The components of the significant part can be given in terms of (p+1)-degree Radau polynomials. We use these results to construct a reliable and efficient residual-type a posteriori error estimates. We prove that the proposed residual-type a posteriori error estimates converge to the true errors in the L2-norm under mesh refinement. The order of convergence is proved to be p+2. Finally, we present a local AMR procedure that makes use of our local and global a posteriori error estimates. We provide several numerical examples illustrating the effectiveness of our procedures.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)201-224
Number of pages24
JournalApplied Numerical Mathematics
Volume162
DOIs
StatePublished - Apr 2021

Keywords

  • A posteriori error estimator
  • Adaptive mesh refinement
  • Elliptic boundary-value problems
  • Local discontinuous Galerkin method
  • Superconvergence

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Numerical Analysis
  • Computational Mathematics
  • Applied Mathematics

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