A posteriori error estimates for discontinuous Galerkin method to the elasticity problem

Abstract

This work concerns with the discontinuous Galerkin (DG)method for the time-dependent linear elasticity problem. We derive the a posteriori error bounds for semi-discrete and fully discrete problems, by making use of the stationary elasticity reconstruction technique which allows to estimate the error for time-dependent problem through the error estimation of the associated stationary elasticity problem. To this end, to derive the error bound for the stationary problem, we present two methods to obtain two different a posteriori error bounds, by $L^2$ duality technique and via energy norm. For fully discrete scheme, we make use of the backward-Euler scheme and an appropriate space-time reconstruction. The technique here can be applicable for a variety of DG methods as well.