The lowest-order stabilizer free Weak Galerkin Finite Element Method

Abstract

Recently, a new stabilizer free weak Galerkin method (SFWG) is proposed, which is easier to implement and more efficient. The main idea is that by letting $j\ge j_0$ for some $j_0$, where $j$ is the degree of the polynomials used to compute the weak gradients, then the stabilizer term in the regular weak Galerkin method is no longer needed. Later on in \cite{al2019note}, the optimal of such $j_0$ for certain types of finite element spaces was given. In this paper, we propose a new efficient SFWG scheme using the lowest possible orders of piecewise polynomials for triangular meshes in $2D$ with the optimal order of convergence.