eprintid: 1384737 rev_number: 29 eprint_status: archive userid: 608 dir: disk0/01/38/47/37 datestamp: 2013-02-02 22:47:21 lastmod: 2021-09-25 23:07:16 status_changed: 2015-11-12 10:33:01 type: article metadata_visibility: show item_issues_count: 0 creators_name: Burman, E title: A Unified Analysis for Conforming and Nonconforming Stabilized Finite Element Methods Using Interior Penalty ispublished: pub divisions: UCL divisions: B04 divisions: C06 divisions: F59 keywords: convection diffusion problem, interior penalty, finite element approximation, Crouzeix-Raviart element note: Copyright © 2005 Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics abstract: We discuss stabilized Galerkin approximations in a new framework, widening the scope from the usual dichotomy of the discontinuous Galerkin method on the one hand and Petrov--Galerkin methods such as the SUPG method on the other. The idea is to use interior penalty terms as a means of stabilizing the finite element method using conforming or nonconforming approximation, thus circumventing the need of a Petrov--Galerkin-type choice of spaces. This is made possible by adding a higher-order penalty term giving L2-control of the jumps in the gradients between adjacent elements. We consider convection-diffusion-reaction problems using piecewise linear approximations and prove optimal order a priori error estimates for two different finite element spaces, the standard H1-conforming space of piecewise linears and the nonconforming space of piecewise linear elements where the nodes are situated at the midpoint of the element sides (the Crouzeix--Raviart element). Moreover, we show how the formulation extends to discontinuous Galerkin interior penalty methods in a natural way by domain decomposition using Nitsche's method. date: 2005-07-25 official_url: http://dx.doi.org/10.1137/S0036142903437374 vfaculties: VMPS oa_status: green full_text_type: pub language: eng primo: open primo_central: open_green verified: verified_manual elements_source: WoS-Lite elements_id: 850170 doi: 10.1137/S0036142903437374 lyricists_name: Burman, Erik lyricists_id: ENBUR31 full_text_status: public publication: SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis volume: 43 number: 5 pagerange: 2012-2033 issn: 0036-1429 citation: Burman, E; (2005) A Unified Analysis for Conforming and Nonconforming Stabilized Finite Element Methods Using Interior Penalty. SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis , 43 (5) pp. 2012-2033. 10.1137/S0036142903437374 <https://doi.org/10.1137/S0036142903437374>. Green open access document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1384737/1/Burman_Sinum_IP_Bur.pdf