Continuous interior penalty $hp$-finite element methods for advection and advection-diffusion equations

Abstract

A continuous interior penalty hp-finite element method that penalizes the jump of the gradient of the discrete solution across mesh interfaces is introduced. Error estimates are obtained for advection and advection-diffusion equations. The analysis relies on three technical results that are of independent interest: an hp-inverse trace inequality, a local discontinuous to continuous hp-interpolation result, and hp-error estimates for continuous L 2 -orthogonal projections. ©2007 American Mathematical Society.