daptive Hybridized Interior Penalty Discontinuous Galerkin Methods for H(curl)-Elliptic Problems

We develop and analyze an adaptive hybridized Interior Penalty Discontinuous Galerkin(IPDG-H)method for H(curl)-elliptic boundary value problems in 2D or 3D arising from a semi-discretization of the eddy currents equations.The method can be derived from a mixed formulation of the given boundary value problem and involves a Lagrange multiplier that is an approximation of the tangential traces of the primal variable on the interfaces of the underlying triangulation of the computational domain.It is shown that the IPDG-H technique can be equivalently formulated and thus implemented as a mortar method.The mesh adaptation is based on a residual-type a posteriori error estimator consisting of element and face residuals.Within a unified framework for adaptive finite element methods,we prove the reliability of the estimator up to a consistency error.The performance of the adaptive symmetric IPDG-H method is documented by numerical results for representative test examples in 2D.