Analysis of backward Euler primal DPG methods
Thomas Führer, Norbert Heuer and Michael Karkulik
Comput. Methods Appl. Math. 21 (4), 811–826, 2021.
We analyse backward Euler time stepping schemes for the primal DPG formulation of a class of parabolic problems.
Optimal error estimates are shown in the natural norm and in the L² norm of the field variable.
For the heat equation the solution of our primal DPG formulation equals the solution of a standard Galerkin scheme
and, thus, optimal error bounds are found in the literature.
In the presence of advection and reaction terms, however, the latter identity is not valid anymore and the analysis
of optimal error bounds requires to resort to elliptic projection operators.
It is essential that these operators be projections with respect to the spatial part of the PDE,
as in standard Galerkin schemes, and not with respect to the full PDE at a time step, as done previously.