Mathematical Aspects of Discontinuous Galerkin Methods

✍ Scribed by Daniele Antonio Di Pietro, Alexandre Ern (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 357
• Series: Mathématiques et Applications 69
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book introduces the basic ideas to build discontinuous Galerkin methods and, at the same time, incorporates several recent mathematical developments. The presentation is to a large extent self-contained and is intended for graduate students and researchers in numerical analysis. The material covers a wide range of model problems, both steady and unsteady, elaborating from advection-reaction and diffusion problems up to the Navier-Stokes equations and Friedrichs' systems. Both finite element and finite volume viewpoints are exploited to convey the main ideas underlying the design of the approximation. The analysis is presented in a rigorous mathematical setting where discrete counterparts of the key properties of the continuous problem are identified. The framework encompasses fairly general meshes regarding element shapes and hanging nodes. Salient implementation issues are also addressed.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
Basic Concepts....Pages 1-34
Front Matter....Pages 35-35
Steady Advection-Reaction....Pages 37-65
Unsteady First-Order PDEs....Pages 67-115
Front Matter....Pages 117-117
PDEs with Diffusion....Pages 119-186
Additional Topics on Pure Diffusion....Pages 187-237
Front Matter....Pages 239-239
Incompressible Flows....Pages 241-291
Friedrichs’ Systems....Pages 293-341
Back Matter....Pages 343-384

✦ Subjects

Numerical Analysis; Computational Mathematics and Numerical Analysis; Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engineering