Discontinuous Galerkin Isogeometric Analysis for The Biharmonic Equation

Abstract: We present and analyze an interior penalty discontinuous Galerkin Isogeometric Analysis (dG-IgA) method for the biharmonic equation in computational domain in $\mathbb{R}^d$ with $d =2,3.$ The computational domain consist of several non-overlapping sub-domains or patches. We construct B-Spline approximation spaces which are discontinuous across patch interfaces. We present a priori error estimate in a discrete norm and numerical experiments to confirm the theory.