A NEW CHARACTERISTIC EXPANDED MIXED METHOD FOR SOBOLEV EQUATION WITH CONVECTION TERM

In this paper,a new numerical method based on a new expanded mixed scheme and the characteristic method is developed and discussed for Sobolev equation with convection term.The hyperbolic part d(x)∂u/∂t+c(x,t)·∇u is handled by the characteristic method and the diffusion term∇·(a(x,t)∇u+b(x,t)∇ut)is approximated by the new expanded mixed method,whose gradient belongs to the simple square integrable(L^(2)(Ω))^(2)space instead of the classical H(div;Ω)space.For a priori error estimates,some important lemmas based on the new expanded mixed projection are introduced.An optimal priori error estimates in L^(2)-norm for the scalar unknown u and a priori error estimates in(L^(2))^(2)-norm for its gradientλ,and its fluxσ(the coefficients times the negative gradient)are derived.In particular,an optimal priori error estimate in H1-norm for the scalar unknown u is obtained.