L2 estimates for weak Galerkin finite element methods for second-order wave equations with polygonal meshes

Abstract

In this paper, we describe weak Galerkin finite element methods for solving hyperbolic problems on polygonal meshes. We propose both semidiscrete and fully discrete schemes to numerically solve the second-order linear wave equation. For the time discretization, we have used implicit second order Newmark scheme. For sufficiently smooth solutions, optimal order error estimate in the L2 norm is shown to hold as O(hk+1+τ2), where h is the mesh size and τ the time step. An extensive set of numerical experiments are conducted to demonstrate the robustness, reliability, flexibility, and accuracy of the proposed method.