Emmanuil Georgoulis

Andrea Cangiani, John Chapman, Emmanuil Georgoulis et al.

We consider a finite element method which couples the continuous Galerkin method away from internal and boundary layers with a discontinuous Galerkin method in the vicinity of layers. We prove that this consistent method is stable in the streamline diffusion norm if the convection field flows non-characteristically from the region of the continuous Galerkin to the region of the discontinuous Galerkin method. The stability properties of the coupled method are illustrated by numerical experiments.

Emmanuil Georgoulis, Charalambos Makridakis, Tristan Pryer

We prove the inf-sup stability of the interior penalty class of discontinuous Galerkin schemes in unbalanced mesh-dependent norms, under a mesh condition allowing for a general class of meshes, which includes many examples of geometrically graded element neighbourhoods. The inf-sup condition results in the stability of the interior penalty Ritz projection in $L^2$ as well as, for the first time, quasi-best approximations in the $L^2$-norm which in turn imply a priori error estimates that do not depend on the global maximum meshsize in that norm. Some numerical experiments are also given.