Weak Galerkin finite element methods for quad-curl problems

Abstract

This article introduces a weak Galerkin (WG) finite element method for quad-curl problems in three dimensions. It is proved that the proposed WG method is stable and accurate in an optimal order of error estimates for the exact solution in discrete norms. In addition, an L2 error estimate in an optimal order except the lowest order k=2 is derived for the WG solution. Some numerical experiments are conducted to verify the efficiency and accuracy of our WG method and furthermore a superconvergence has been observed from the numerical results.