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On a variant of the local projection method stable in the SUPG norm

Publication at Faculty of Mathematics and Physics |
2009

Abstract

We consider the local projection finite element method for the discretization of a scalar convection-diffusion equation with a divergence-free convection field. We introduce a new fluctuation operator which is defined using an orthogonal L2 projection with respect to a weighted L2 inner product.

We prove that the bilinear form corresponding to the discrete problem satisfies an inf-sup condition with respect to the SUPG norm and derive an error estimate for the discrete solution.