Ultra-weak formulation of a hypersingular integral equation on polygons and DPG method with optimal test functions

Norbert Heuer and Felipe Pinochet
SIAM J. Numer. Anal. 52 (6), 2703-2721, 2014.

We present an ultra-weak formulation of a hypersingular integral equation on closed polygons and prove its well-posedness and equivalence with the standard variational formulation. Based on this ultra-weak formulation we present a discontinuous Petrov-Galerkin method with optimal test functions and prove its quasi-optimal convergence in L2. Theoretical results are confirmed by numerical experiments with uniform and adaptively refined meshes.
In the preprint version arXiv:1309.1697 we also consider the case of an open polygon (interval). There, we analyze optimal test functions and present numerical experiments for this case.