Analysis of sharp superconvergence of local discontinuous galerkin method for one-dimensional linear parabolic equations

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Article

Publication Date

2015

Department

Department of Mathematical Sciences

Abstract

In this paper, we study the superconvergence of the error for the local discontinuous Galerkin (LDG) finite element method for one-dimensional linear parabolic equations when the alternating flux is used. We prove that if we apply piecewise k-th degree polynomials, the error between the LDG solution and the exact solution is (k+2)-th order superconver-gent at the Radau points with suitable initial discretization. Moreover, we also prove the LDG solution is (k+2)-th order superconvergent for the error to a particular projection of the exact solution. Even though we only consider periodic boundary condition, this boundary condition is not essential, since we do not use Fourier analysis. Our analysis is valid for arbitrary regular meshes and for P < inf> k polynomials with arbitrary k> 1. We perform numerical experiments to demonstrate that the superconvergence rates proved in this paper are sharp.

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Copyright 2015 by AMSS, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Publisher’s version of record: https://doi.org/10.4208/jcm.1502-m2014-0001

Publication Title

Journal of Computational Mathematics

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