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Volume 14, Issue 4
A Weak Galerkin Mixed Finite Element Method for Acoustic Wave Equation

Xi Zhang & Minfu Feng

Adv. Appl. Math. Mech., 14 (2022), pp. 936-959.

Published online: 2022-04

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This paper is concerned with the weak Galerkin mixed finite element method (WG-MFEM) for the second-order hyperbolic acoustic wave equation in velocity-pressure formulation. In this formulation, the original second-order differential equation in time and space is reduced to first-order differential equations by introducing the velocity and pressure variables. We employ the usual discontinuous piecewise-polynomials of degree $k\geq 0$ for the pressure and $k+1$ for the velocity. Furthermore, the normal component of the pressure on the interface of elements is enhanced by polynomials of degree $k+1$. The time derivative is approximated by the backward Euler difference. We show the stability of the semi-discrete and fully-discrete schemes, and obtain the suboptimal order error estimates for the velocity and pressure variables. Numerical experiment confirms our theoretical analysis.


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65M60, 65M12

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This paper is concerned with the weak Galerkin mixed finite element method (WG-MFEM) for the second-order hyperbolic acoustic wave equation in velocity-pressure formulation. In this formulation, the original second-order differential equation in time and space is reduced to first-order differential equations by introducing the velocity and pressure variables. We employ the usual discontinuous piecewise-polynomials of degree $k\geq 0$ for the pressure and $k+1$ for the velocity. Furthermore, the normal component of the pressure on the interface of elements is enhanced by polynomials of degree $k+1$. The time derivative is approximated by the backward Euler difference. We show the stability of the semi-discrete and fully-discrete schemes, and obtain the suboptimal order error estimates for the velocity and pressure variables. Numerical experiment confirms our theoretical analysis.


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This paper is concerned with the weak Galerkin mixed finite element method (WG-MFEM) for the second-order hyperbolic acoustic wave equation in velocity-pressure formulation. In this formulation, the original second-order differential equation in time and space is reduced to first-order differential equations by introducing the velocity and pressure variables. We employ the usual discontinuous piecewise-polynomials of degree $k\geq 0$ for the pressure and $k+1$ for the velocity. Furthermore, the normal component of the pressure on the interface of elements is enhanced by polynomials of degree $k+1$. The time derivative is approximated by the backward Euler difference. We show the stability of the semi-discrete and fully-discrete schemes, and obtain the suboptimal order error estimates for the velocity and pressure variables. Numerical experiment confirms our theoretical analysis.


Xi Zhang and Minfu Feng. (2022). A Weak Galerkin Mixed Finite Element Method for Acoustic Wave Equation. Advances in Applied Mathematics and Mechanics. 14 (4). 936-959. doi:10.4208/aamm.OA-2020-0346
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