Discontinuous Galerkin methods as a solution technique of second order elliptic problems,have been increasingly exploited by several authors in the past ten years.It is generally claimed the alledged attractive geomet...Discontinuous Galerkin methods as a solution technique of second order elliptic problems,have been increasingly exploited by several authors in the past ten years.It is generally claimed the alledged attractive geometrical flexibility of these methods,although they involve considerable increase of computational effort,as compared to continuous methods.This work is aimed at proposing a combination of DGM and non-conforming finite element methods to solve elliptic m-harmonic equations in a bounded domain of R^(n),for n=2 or n=3,with m≥n+1,as a valid and reasonable alternative to classical finite elements,or even to boundary element methods.展开更多
基金They also gratefully acknowledge the financial support provided by CNPq,the Brazilian National Research Council,through grants 307996/2008-5 and 304518/2002-6.
文摘Discontinuous Galerkin methods as a solution technique of second order elliptic problems,have been increasingly exploited by several authors in the past ten years.It is generally claimed the alledged attractive geometrical flexibility of these methods,although they involve considerable increase of computational effort,as compared to continuous methods.This work is aimed at proposing a combination of DGM and non-conforming finite element methods to solve elliptic m-harmonic equations in a bounded domain of R^(n),for n=2 or n=3,with m≥n+1,as a valid and reasonable alternative to classical finite elements,or even to boundary element methods.