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Convergence of an adaptive discontinuous Galerkin method for the Biharmonic problem
In this thesis we develop a basic convergence result for an adaptive symmetric interior penalty discontinuous Galerkin discretisation for the Biharmonic problem which provides convergence without rates for arbitrary polynomial degree r≥2, all practically relevant marking strategies and all penalty parameters assuring coercivity of the method.
We have to deal with the problem that the spaces consisting of piecewise polynomial functions may possibly contain no proper C^1-conforming subspace. This prevents from a straightforward generalisation of convergence results of adaptive discontinuous Galerkin methods for elliptic PDEs and requires the development of some new key technical tools. The convergence analysis is based on several embedding properties of (broken) Sobolev and BV spaces, and the construction of a suitable limit space of the non-conforming discrete spaces, created by the adaptive algorithm.
Finally, the convergence result is validated through a number of numerical experiments
Adaptive discontinuous Galerkin approximations to fourth order parabolic problems
An adaptive algorithm, based on residual type a posteriori indicators of
errors measured in and norms, for a numerical
scheme consisting of implicit Euler method in time and discontinuous Galerkin
method in space for linear parabolic fourth order problems is presented. The a
posteriori analysis is performed for convex domains in two and three space
dimensions for local spatial polynomial degrees . The a posteriori
estimates are then used within an adaptive algorithm, highlighting their
relevance in practical computations, which results into substantial reduction
of computational effort
A Frame Work for the Error Analysis of Discontinuous Finite Element Methods for Elliptic Optimal Control Problems and Applications to IP methods
In this article, an abstract framework for the error analysis of
discontinuous Galerkin methods for control constrained optimal control problems
is developed. The analysis establishes the best approximation result from a
priori analysis point of view and delivers reliable and efficient a posteriori
error estimators. The results are applicable to a variety of problems just
under the minimal regularity possessed by the well-posed ness of the problem.
Subsequently, applications of interior penalty methods for a boundary
control problem as well as a distributed control problem governed by the
biharmonic equation subject to simply supported boundary conditions are
discussed through the abstract analysis. Numerical experiments illustrate the
theoretical findings. Finally, we also discuss the variational discontinuous
discretization method (without discretizing the control) and its corresponding
error estimates.Comment: 23 pages, 5 figures, 1 tabl
Discontinuous Galerkin Methods for the Biharmonic Problem on Polygonal and Polyhedral Meshes
We introduce an -version symmetric interior penalty discontinuous
Galerkin finite element method (DGFEM) for the numerical approximation of the
biharmonic equation on general computational meshes consisting of
polygonal/polyhedral (polytopic) elements. In particular, the stability and
-version a-priori error bound are derived based on the specific choice of
the interior penalty parameters which allows for edges/faces degeneration.
Furthermore, by deriving a new inverse inequality for a special class {of}
polynomial functions (harmonic polynomials), the proposed DGFEM is proven to be
stable to incorporate very general polygonal/polyhedral elements with an
\emph{arbitrary} number of faces for polynomial basis with degree . The
key feature of the proposed method is that it employs elemental polynomial
bases of total degree , defined in the physical coordinate
system, without requiring the mapping from a given reference or canonical
frame. A series of numerical experiments are presented to demonstrate the
performance of the proposed DGFEM on general polygonal/polyhedral meshes
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