Daveau Christian, Abdelhamid Zaghdani
Department of Mathematics
University of Cergy-Pontoise
AGM, CNRS, UMR 8088, 2 Avenue Adolphe Chauvin
Cergy-Pontoise Cedex, 95302, FRANCE
e-mail: christian.daveau@math.u-cergy.fr
e-mail: zaghdani@math.u-cergy.fr

Abstract. In this paper a new discontinuous Galerkin method for the three dimensional electrostatic problem is presented. The divergence contraint is taken into account by a regularized variational formulation and the tangential and normal jumps of the discrete solution at the element interface are penalized. Optimal error estimates in a discrete energy norm are proved. Some numerical experiments confirm the theoretical predictions.

Received: August 1, 2009

AMS Subject Classification: 65N32

Key Words and Phrases: discontinuous Galerkin method, electrostatic problem

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