eprintid: 1572511 rev_number: 24 eprint_status: archive userid: 608 dir: disk0/01/57/25/11 datestamp: 2018-03-02 12:50:18 lastmod: 2021-09-19 23:55:40 status_changed: 2018-03-02 12:50:18 type: article metadata_visibility: show creators_name: Smears, I creators_name: Sueli, E title: Discontinuous Galerkin Finite Element Approximation of Nondivergence Form Elliptic Equations With Cordes Coefficients ispublished: pub divisions: UCL divisions: B04 divisions: C06 divisions: F59 keywords: Science & Technology, Physical Sciences, Mathematics, Applied, Mathematics, discontinuous Galerkin, hp-DGFEM, Cordes condition, nondivergence form, discontinuous coefficients, PDEs, finite element methods, CONVERGENCE, VERSION note: This version is the version of record. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. abstract: Nondivergence form elliptic equations with discontinuous coefficients do not generally possess a weak formulation, thus presenting an obstacle to their numerical solution by classical finite element methods. We propose a new $hp$-version discontinuous Galerkin finite element method for a class of these problems which satisfy the Cordès condition. It is shown that the method exhibits a convergence rate that is optimal with respect to the mesh size $h$ and suboptimal with respect to the polynomial degree $p$ by only half an order. Numerical experiments demonstrate the accuracy of the method and illustrate the potential of exponential convergence under $hp$-refinement for problems with discontinuous coefficients and nonsmooth solutions. date: 2013-01-01 date_type: published publisher: SIAM PUBLICATIONS official_url: http://dx.doi.org/10.1137/120899613 oa_status: green full_text_type: pub language: eng primo: open primo_central: open_green article_type_text: Article verified: verified_manual elements_id: 1419012 doi: 10.1137/120899613 lyricists_name: Smears, Iain lyricists_id: ISMEA05 actors_name: Smears, Iain actors_id: ISMEA05 actors_role: owner full_text_status: public publication: SIAM: Journal on Numerical Analysis volume: 51 number: 4 pagerange: 2088-2106 pages: 19 issn: 1095-7170 citation: Smears, I; Sueli, E; (2013) Discontinuous Galerkin Finite Element Approximation of Nondivergence Form Elliptic Equations With Cordes Coefficients. SIAM: Journal on Numerical Analysis , 51 (4) pp. 2088-2106. 10.1137/120899613 <https://doi.org/10.1137/120899613>. Green open access document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1572511/1/SIAM%20J.%20Numer.%20Anal.%202013%20Smears.pdf