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A flux preserving immersed nonconforming finite element method for elliptic problems. (English) Zbl 1291.65343

Summary: An immersed nonconforming finite element method based on the flux continuity on intercell boundaries is introduced. The direct application of flux continuity across the support of basis functions yields a nonsymmetric stiffness system for interface elements. To overcome non-symmetry of the stiffness system we introduce a modification based on the Riesz representation and a local postprocessing to recover local fluxes. This approach yields a \(P_1\) immersed nonconforming finite element method with a slightly different source term from the standard nonconforming finite element method. The recovered numerical flux conserves total flux in arbitrary sub-domain. An optimal rate of convergence in the energy norm is obtained and numerical examples are provided to confirm our analysis.

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65N30 Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs
65N12 Stability and convergence of numerical methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs
35J25 Boundary value problems for second-order elliptic equations
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