The Compact Discontinuous Galerkin (CDG) Method for Elliptic Problems release_r7owvpuw4jf4pc7itts2hcirw4

by Jaume Peraire, Per-Olof Persson

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We present a compact discontinuous Galerkin (CDG) method for an elliptic model problem. The problem is first cast as a system of first order equations by introducing the gradient of the primal unknown, or flux, as an additional variable. A standard discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method is then applied to the resulting system of equations. The numerical interelement fluxes are such that the equations for the additional variable can be eliminated at the element level, thus resulting in a global system that involves only the original unknown variable. The proposed method is closely related to the local discontinuous Galerkin (LDG) method [B. Cockburn and C.-W. Shu, SIAM J. Numer. Anal., 35 (1998), pp. 2440-2463], but, unlike the LDG method, the sparsity pattern of the CDG method involves only nearest neighbors. Also, unlike the LDG method, the CDG method works without stabilization for an arbitrary orientation of the element interfaces. The computation of the numerical interface fluxes for the CDG method is slightly more involved than for the LDG method, but this additional complication is clearly offset by increased compactness and flexibility. Compared to the BR2 [F. Bassi and S. Rebay, J. Comput. Phys., 131 (1997), pp. 267-279] and IP [J. Douglas, Jr., and T. Dupont, in Computing Methods in Applied Sciences (Second Internat. Sympos., Versailles, 1975), Lecture Notes in Phys. 58, Springer, Berlin, 1976, pp. 207-216] methods, which are known to be compact, the present method produces fewer nonzero elements in the matrix and is computationally more efficient.
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