A discontinuous Galerkin method with weighted averages for advection-diffusion equations with locally small and anisotropic diffusivity

Abstract

We propose and analyse a symmetric weighted interior penalty method to approximate in a discontinuous Galerkin framework advection―diffusion equations with anisotropic and discontinuous diffusivity. The originality of the method consists in the use of diffusivity-dependent weighted averages to better cope with locally small diffusivity (or equivalently with locally high Peclet numbers) on fitted meshes. The analysis yields convergence results for the natural energy norm that are optimal with respect to mesh size and robust with respect to diffusivity. The convergence results for the advective derivative are optimal with respect to mesh size and robust for isotropic diffusivity, as well as for anisotropic diffusivity if the cell Peclet numbers evaluated with the largest eigenvalue of the diffusivity tensor are large enough. Numerical results are presented to illustrate the performance of the proposed scheme.