A Stabilizing Subgrid for Convection-Diffusion Problem

Abstract

A stabilizing subgrid which consists of a single additional node in each triangular element is analyzed by solving the convection-diffusion problem, especially in the case of small diffusion. The choice of the location of the subgrid node is based on minimizing the residual of a local problem inside each element. We study convergence properties of the method under consideration and its connection with previously suggested stabilizing subgrids. We prove that the standard Galerkin finite element solution on augmented grid produces a discrete solution that satisfy the same a priori error estimates that are typically obtained with SUPG and RFB methods. Some numerical experiments that confirm the theoretical findings are also presented.