# A CONSISTENT DISCONTINUOUS BUBBLE SCHEME FOR ELLIPTIC PROBLEMS WITH INTERFACE JUMPS

• KWONG, IN (SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS SEMICONDUCTOR R & D CENTER) ;
• JO, WANGHYUN (DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS, KUNSAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY)
• Accepted : 2020.05.27
• Published : 2020.06.25

#### Abstract

We propose a consistent numerical method for elliptic interface problems with nonhomogeneous jumps. We modify the discontinuous bubble immersed finite element method (DB-IFEM) introduced in (Chang et al. 2011), by adding a consistency term to the bilinear form. We prove optimal error estimates in L2 and energy like norm for this new scheme. One of the important technique in this proof is the Bramble-Hilbert type of interpolation error estimate for discontinuous functions. We believe this is a first time to deal with interpolation error estimate for discontinuous functions. Numerical examples with various interfaces are provided. We observe optimal convergence rates for all the examples, while the performance of early DB-IFEM deteriorates for some examples. Thus, the modification of the bilinear form is meaningful to enhance the performance.

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