1. Recovered finite element methods on polygonal and polyhedral meshes
- Author
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Emmanuil H. Georgoulis, Tristan Pryer, and Zhaonan Dong
- Subjects
Numerical Analysis ,Polynomial ,Series (mathematics) ,Applied Mathematics ,Degrees of freedom (statistics) ,010103 numerical & computational mathematics ,01 natural sciences ,Finite element method ,010101 applied mathematics ,Computational Mathematics ,Discontinuous Galerkin method ,Modeling and Simulation ,Applied mathematics ,Polygon mesh ,Boundary value problem ,0101 mathematics ,Element (category theory) ,Analysis ,ComputingMethodologies_COMPUTERGRAPHICS ,Mathematics - Abstract
Recovered Finite Element Methods (R-FEM) have been recently introduced in Georgoulis and Pryer [Comput. Methods Appl. Mech. Eng. 332 (2018) 303โ324]. for meshes consisting of simplicial and/or box-type elements. Here, utilising the flexibility of the R-FEM framework, we extend their definition to polygonal and polyhedral meshes in two and three spatial dimensions, respectively. An attractive feature of this framework is its ability to produce arbitrary order polynomial conforming discretizations, yet involving only as many degrees of freedom as discontinuous Galerkin methods over general polygonal/polyhedral meshes with potentially many faces per element. A priori error bounds are shown for general linear, possibly degenerate, second order advection-diffusion-reaction boundary value problems. A series of numerical experiments highlight the good practical performance of the proposed numerical framework.
- Published
- 2020