TY - JOUR T1 - Sub-Optimal Convergence of Discontinuous Galerkin Methods with Central Fluxes for Linear Hyperbolic Equations with Even Degree Polynomial Approximations AU - Liu , Yong AU - Shu , Chi-Wang AU - Zhang , Mengping JO - Journal of Computational Mathematics VL - 4 SP - 518 EP - 537 PY - 2021 DA - 2021/05 SN - 39 DO - http://doi.org/10.4208/jcm.2002-m2019-0305 UR - https://global-sci.org/intro/article_detail/jcm/19158.html KW - Discontinuous Galerkin method, Central flux, Sub-optimal convergence rates. AB -

In this paper, we theoretically and numerically verify that the discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods with central fluxes for linear hyperbolic equations on non-uniform meshes have sub-optimal convergence properties when measured in the $L^2$-norm for even degree polynomial approximations. On uniform meshes, the optimal error estimates are provided for arbitrary number of cells in one and multi-dimensions, improving previous results. The theoretical findings are found to be sharp and consistent with numerical results.