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Local CIP stabilization for composite finite elements

Burman, E; Schieweck, F; (2016) Local CIP stabilization for composite finite elements. SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis , 54 (3) pp. 1967-1992. 10.1137/15M1039390. Green open access

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Abstract

We propose a continuous interior penalty (CIP) method for the pure transport problem and for the viscosity dependent "Stokes-Brinkman" problem where the gradient jump penalty is localized to faces in the interior of subdomains. Special focus is given to the case where the subdomains are so-called composite finite elements, e.g., quadrilateral, hexahedral or prismatic elements which are composed by simplices such that the arising global simplicial mesh is regular. The advantage of this local CIP is that it allows for static condensation in contrast to the classical CIP method. If the degrees of freedom in the interior of the composite finite elements are eliminated using static condensation then the resulting couplings of the skeleton degrees of freedom are comparable to those for classical conforming finite element methods which leads to a substantially smaller matrix stencil than for the standard global CIP method. Optimal stability and error estimates are proved and numerical tests are presented. For the Stokes-Brinkman model, our error bound does not increase if the viscosity parameter tends to zero which is mainly achieved by adding a penalty term for the divergence of the velocity in the discretization. Moreover, the reduction effect of the static condensation is much stronger for this model since, beside the elimination of all velocity degrees of freedom in the interior of each composite cell, all pressure degrees of freedom except for the cellwise constants can be eliminated.

Type: Article
Title: Local CIP stabilization for composite finite elements
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1137/15M1039390
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1137/15M1039390
Language: English
Additional information: © 2016 Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.
Keywords: Stabilization, transport equation, Stokes–Brinkman equation, finite element method, composite elements
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Mathematics
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1504429
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