Local discontinuous Galerkin approximation of non-Fickian diffusion model in viscoelastic polymers

Abstract

In this paper, we investigate a fully discrete local discontinuous Galerkin approximation of a non-linear non-Fickian diffusion model in viscoelastic polymers. For the spatial discretization, we adopt local discontinuous Galerkin finite element method and for the time discretization we use backward Euler method. We derive the stability estimate and a priori error estimate for the discrete scheme. Numerical examples are given to verify the theoretical findings.