A posteriori error estimation for a fully discrete discontinuous Galerkin approximation to a kind of singularly perturbed problems

The time variable in the semi-discrete problem is still continuous. In order to obtain an expected numerical solution, discretization the time variable from the semi-discrete form (full discretization) is needed. For a kind of non-stationarily singular perturbation problem in ID, a fully discrete discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method is considered. That is to say, space variable is discretized with a primal DG method with penalty, and time variable is done using the backward Euler method. By virtue of duality arguments, inverse estimation of finite element method and interpolation theory, we present a residual-type a posteriori error indicator, which is usually used for adaptivity. (C) 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.