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SIAM JOURNAL ON NUMERICAL ANALYSIS
Volume 49, Issue 3, Pages 1149-1176Publisher
SIAM PUBLICATIONS
DOI: 10.1137/100789002
Keywords
evolutionary convection-diffusion-reaction equation; streamline-upwind Petrov-Galerkin (SUPG) finite element method; backward Euler scheme; Crank-Nicolson scheme; time-continuous problem; error analysis
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- Spanish MEC [MTM2007-60528, MTM2010-14919]
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Conditions on the stabilization parameters are explored for different approaches in deriving error estimates for the streamline-upwind Petrov-Galerkin (SUPG) finite element stabilization of time-dependent convection-diffusion-reaction equations. Exemplarily, it is shown for the SUPG method combined with the backward Euler scheme that standard energy arguments lead to estimates for stabilization parameters that depend on the length of the time step. The stabilization vanishes in the time-continuous limit. However, based on numerical experience, this seems not to be the correct behavior. For this reason, the main focus of the paper consists in deriving estimates in which the stabilization parameters do not depend on the length of the time step. It is shown that such estimates can be obtained in the case of time-independent convection and reaction. An error estimate for the time-continuous case with the standard order of convergence is derived for stabilization parameters of the same form as they are optimal for the steady-state problem. Analogous estimates are obtained for the fully discrete case using the backward Euler method and the Crank-Nicolson scheme. Numerical studies support the analytical results.
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