We address the problem of finding the necessary stabilization for a class of Discontinuous Galerkin methods in mixed form for the two-dimensional case. In particular, we present a new stabilized formulation of the (unstable) Bassi-Rebay method and a new formulation of the Local Discontinuous Galerkin(LDG) method. The stability properties of the new formulations are studied and error estimates are derived.
The theoretical results are validated in a series of numerical tests.