TY - JOUR T1 - Low Regularity Error Analysis for Weak Galerkin Finite Element Methods for Second Order Elliptic Problems AU - Ye , Xiu AU - Zhang , Shangyou JO - Numerical Mathematics: Theory, Methods and Applications VL - 3 SP - 613 EP - 623 PY - 2021 DA - 2021/06 SN - 14 DO - http://doi.org/10.4208/nmtma.OA-2020-0120 UR - https://global-sci.org/intro/article_detail/nmtma/19191.html KW - Weak Galerkin, finite element methods, weak gradient, second-order elliptic problems, low regularity. AB -

This paper presents error estimates in both an energy norm and the $L^2$-norm for the weak Galerkin (WG) finite element methods for elliptic problems with low regularity solutions. The error analysis for the continuous Galerkin finite element remains same regardless of regularity. A totally different analysis is needed for discontinuous finite element methods if the elliptic regularity is lower than H-1.5. Numerical results confirm the theoretical analysis.