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A Mixed DG Method for Linearized Incompressible Magnetohydrodynamics

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We introduce and analyze a discontinuous Galerkin method for the numerical discretization of a stationary incompressible magnetohydrodynamics model problem. The fluid unknowns are discretized with inf-sup stable discontinuous ℘ 3 k −℘ k−1 elements whereas the magnetic part of the equations is approximated by discontinuous ℘ 3 k −℘ k+1 elements. We carry out a complete a-priori error analysis of the method and prove that the energy norm error is convergent of order k in the mesh size. These results are verified in a series of numerical experiments.

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  1. School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, UK

    Paul Houston

  2. Department of Mathematics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z2, Canada

    Dominik Schötzau & Xiaoxi Wei

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D. Schötzau and X. Wei were supported in part by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Counsil of Canada (NSERC).

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Houston, P., Schötzau, D. & Wei, X. A Mixed DG Method for Linearized Incompressible Magnetohydrodynamics. J Sci Comput 40, 281–314 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10915-008-9265-x

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