A Compact C-0 Discontinuous Galerkin Method for Kirchhoff Plates

作者：An Rong; Huang Xuehai^*

来源：Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations, 2015, 31(4): 1265-1287.

DOI：10.1002/num.21946

• Kirchhoff plates
• compact C-0 discontinuous Galerkin method
• local lifting operator
• error analysis
• minimal regularity

A compact C-0 discontinuous Galerkin (CCDG) method is developed for solving the Kirchhoff plate bending problems. Based on the CDG (LCDG) method for Kirchhoff plate bending problems, the CCDG method is obtained by canceling the term of global lifting operator and enhancing the term of local lifting operator. The resulted CCDG method possesses the compact stencil, that is only the degrees of freedom belonging to neighboring elements are connected. The advantages of CCDG method are: (1) CCDG method just requires C-0 finite element spaces; (2) the stiffness matrix is sparser than CDG (LCDG) method; and (3) it does not contain any parameter which can not be quantified a priori compared to C-0 interior penalty (IP) method. The optimal order error estimates in certain broken energy norm and H-1-norm for the CCDG method are derived under minimal regularity assumptions on the exact solution with the help of some local lower bound estimates of a posteriori error analysis. Some numerical results are included to verify the theoretical convergence orders.

• 出版日期2015-7
• 单位温州大学