Analysis of a family of HDG methods for second order elliptic problems

In this paper, we analyze a family of hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin (HDG) methods for second order elliptic problems in two and three dimensions. The methods use piecewise polynomials of degree $k\geqslant 0$ for both the flux and numerical trace, and piecewise polynomials of degree $k+1$ for the potential. We establish error estimates for the numerical flux and potential under the minimal regularity condition. Moreover, we construct a local postprocessing for the flux, which produces a numerical flux with better conservation. Numerical experiments in two-space dimensions confirm our theoretical results.Comment: 18 page

Robust weak Galerkin finite element methods for linear elasticity with continuous displacement trace approximation

This paper proposes and analyzes a class of new weak Galerkin (WG) finite element methods for 2- and 3-dimensional linear elasticity problems. The methods use discontinuous piecewise-polynomial approximations of degrees $k(\geq 0)$ for the stress, $k+1$ for the displacement, and a continuous piecewise-polynomial approximation of degree $k+1$ for the displacement trace on the inter-element boundaries, respectively. After the local elimination of unknowns defined in the interior of elements, the WG methods result in SPD systems where the unknowns are only the degrees of freedom describing the continuous trace approximation. We show that the proposed methods are robust in the sense that the derived a priori error estimates are optimal and uniform with respect to the Lam\'{e} constant $\lambda$. Numerical experiments confirm the theoretical results