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A Posteriori Error Control for Discontinuous Galerkin Methods for Parabolic Problems

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A Posteriori Error Control for Discontinuous Galerkin Methods for Parabolic Problems
We derive energy-norm a posteriori error bounds for an Euler timestepping method combined with various spatial discontinuous Galerkin schemes for linear parabolic problems. For accessibility, we address first the spatially semidiscrete case, and then move to the fully discrete y introducing the implicit Euler timestepping. All results are presented in an abstract setting and then illustrated with particular applications. This enables the error bounds to hold for a variety of discontinuous Galerkin methods, provided that energy-norm a posteriori error bounds for the corresponding elliptic problem are available. To illustrate the method, we apply it to the interior penalty discontinuous Galerkin method, which prompts the derivation of new a posteriori error bounds. For the analysis of the time-dependent problems we use the elliptic reconstruction technique and we deal with the nonconforming part of the error by deriving appropriate computable a posteriori bounds for it. AMS subject clas...
Emmanuil H. Georgoulis, Omar Lakkis, Juha M. Virta
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Year 2011
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Authors Emmanuil H. Georgoulis, Omar Lakkis, Juha M. Virtanen
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