Special Session 104: Recent Developments in High-Order Numerical Methods for Multiscale/Multiphysics Partial Differential Equations

A penalty free weak Galerkin finite element method on quadrilateral meshes

Ruishu Wang
Jilin University
Peoples Rep of China
Co-Author(s):    Jiangguo Liu; Zhuoran Wang
Abstract:
The weak Galerkin finite element methods are non-standard finite element methods. The newly defined weak functions are considered as the approximate functions, which have two parts, inner and boundary, on each element. Weak derivatives are correspondingly defined. Appropriate spaces should be used when no penalty term is employed. We use the Arbogast-Correa element to define the weak gradient and obtain a penalty-free weak Galerkin scheme, which is then employed to solve problems related to Stokes flow, linear elasticity, and poroelasticity.