hp non-conforming a priori error analysis of an Interior Penalty Discontinuous Galerkin BEM for the Helmholtz equation.

This work is concerned with the construction and the hp non-conforming a priori error analysis of a Discontinuous Galerkin DG numerical scheme applied to the hypersingular integral equation related to the Helmholtz problem in 3D. The main results of this article are an error bound in a norm suited to the problem and in the L 2 -norm. Those bounds are quasi-optimal for the h -convergence and the p -convergence. Various formulation choices and penalty functions are theoretically discussed. In particular we show that a penalty function of the shape h 2 p leads to a quasi-optimal convergence of the scheme. Some numerical experiments confirm the expected rates of convergence and the effect of the penalty function. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]