318 research outputs found
Instance optimal Crouzeix-Raviart adaptive finite element methods for the Poisson and Stokes problems
We extend the ideas of Diening, Kreuzer, and Stevenson [Instance optimality
of the adaptive maximum strategy, Found. Comput. Math. (2015)], from conforming
approximations of the Poisson problem to nonconforming Crouzeix-Raviart
approximations of the Poisson and the Stokes problem in 2D. As a consequence,
we obtain instance optimality of an AFEM with a modified maximum marking
strategy
Convergence and optimality of the adaptive nonconforming linear element method for the Stokes problem
In this paper, we analyze the convergence and optimality of a standard
adaptive nonconforming linear element method for the Stokes problem. After
establishing a special quasi--orthogonality property for both the velocity and
the pressure in this saddle point problem, we introduce a new prolongation
operator to carry through the discrete reliability analysis for the error
estimator. We then use a specially defined interpolation operator to prove
that, up to oscillation, the error can be bounded by the approximation error
within a properly defined nonlinear approximate class. Finally, by introducing
a new parameter-dependent error estimator, we prove the convergence and
optimality estimates
A new generalization of the non-conforming FEM to higher polynomial degrees
This paper generalizes the non-conforming FEM of Crouzeix and Raviart and its
fundamental projection property by a novel mixed formulation for the Poisson
problem based on the Helmholtz decomposition. The new formulation allows for
ansatz spaces of arbitrary polynomial degree and its discretization coincides
with the mentioned non-conforming FEM for the lowest polynomial degree. The
discretization directly approximates the gradient of the solution instead of
the solution itself. Besides the a priori and medius analysis, this paper
proves optimal convergence rates for an adaptive algorithm for the new
discretization. These are also demonstrated in numerical experiments.
Furthermore, this paper focuses on extensions of this new scheme to
quadrilateral meshes, mixed FEMs, and three space dimensions
Optimal adaptivity for a standard finite element method for the Stokes problem
We prove that the a standard adaptive algorithm for the Taylor-Hood
discretization of the stationary Stokes problem converges with optimal rate.
This is done by developing an abstract framework for indefinite problems which
allows us to prove general quasi-orthogonality proposed in [Carstensen et al.,
2014]. This property is the main obstacle towards the optimality proof and
therefore is the main focus of this work. The key ingredient is a new
connection between the mentioned quasi-orthogonality and -factorizations of
infinite matrices.Comment: Updated version after Paper has been accepted. arXiv admin note: text
overlap with arXiv:1710.0608
Nonconforming Finite Element Discretisation for Semilinear Problems with Trilinear Nonlinearity
The Morley finite element method (FEM) is attractive for semilinear problems
with the biharmonic operator as a leading term in the stream function vorticity
formulation of 2D Navier-Stokes problem and in the von K\'{a}rm\'{a}n
equations. This paper establishes a best-approximation a~priori error analysis
and an a~posteriori error analysis of discrete solutions close to an arbitrary
regular solution on the continuous level to semilinear problems with a
trilinear nonlinearity. The analysis avoids any smallness assumptions on the
data and so has to provide discrete stability by a perturbation analysis before
the Newton-Kantorovic theorem can provide the existence of discrete solutions.
An abstract framework for the stability analysis in terms of discrete operators
from the medius analysis leads to new results on the nonconforming
Crouzeix-Raviart FEM for second-order linear non-selfadjoint and indefinite
elliptic problems with coefficients. The paper identifies six
parameters and sufficient conditions for the local a~priori and a~posteriori
error control of conforming and nonconforming discretisations of a class of
semilinear elliptic problems first in an abstract framework and then in the two
semilinear applications. This leads to new best-approximation error estimates
and to a~posteriori error estimates in terms of explicit residual-based error
control for the conforming and Morley FEM
Refined a posteriori error estimation for classical and pressure-robust Stokes finite element methods
Recent works showed that pressure-robust modifications of mixed finite
element methods for the Stokes equations outperform their standard versions in
many cases. This is achieved by divergence-free reconstruction operators and
results in pressure independent velocity error estimates which are robust with
respect to small viscosities. In this paper we develop a posteriori error
control which reflects this robustness.
The main difficulty lies in the volume contribution of the standard
residual-based approach that includes the -norm of the right-hand side.
However, the velocity is only steered by the divergence-free part of this
source term. An efficient error estimator must approximate this divergence-free
part in a proper manner, otherwise it can be dominated by the pressure error.
To overcome this difficulty a novel approach is suggested that uses arguments
from the stream function and vorticity formulation of the Navier--Stokes
equations. The novel error estimators only take the of the
right-hand side into account and so lead to provably reliable, efficient and
pressure-independent upper bounds in case of a pressure-robust method in
particular in pressure-dominant situations. This is also confirmed by some
numerical examples with the novel pressure-robust modifications of the
Taylor--Hood and mini finite element methods
Morley Finite Element Method for the Eigenvalues of the Biharmonic Operator
This paper studies the nonconforming Morley finite element approximation of
the eigenvalues of the biharmonic operator. A new conforming companion
operator leads to an error estimate for the Morley finite element method
which directly compares the error with the error in the energy norm and,
hence, can dispense with any additional regularity assumptions. Furthermore,
the paper presents new eigenvalue error estimates for nonconforming finite
elements that bound the error of (possibly multiple or clustered) eigenvalues
by the approximation error of the computed invariant subspace. An application
is the proof of optimal convergence rates for the adaptive Morley finite
element method for eigenvalue clusters.Comment: to appear in IMA Journal of Numerical Analysi
A Nonconforming Finite Element Method for Fourth Order Curl Equations in R^3
In this paper we present a nonconforming finite element method for solving
fourth order curl equations in three dimensions arising from
magnetohydrodynamics models. We show that the method has an optimal error
estimate for a model problem involving both curl^2 and curl^4 operators. The
element has a very small number of degrees of freedom and it imposes the
inter-element continuity along the tangential direction which is appropriate
for the approximation of magnetic fields. We also provide explicit formulae of
basis functions for this element.Comment: 16 pages, submitte
Variational formulation and numerical analysis of linear elliptic equations in nondivergence form with Cordes coefficients
This paper studies formulations of second-order elliptic partial differential
equations in nondivergence form on convex domains as equivalent variational
problems. The first formulation is that of Smears \& S\"uli [SIAM J.\ Numer.\
Anal.\ 51(2013), pp.\ 2088--2106.], and the second one is a new symmetric
formulation based on a least-squares functional. These formulations enable the
use of standard finite element techniques for variational problems in subspaces
of as well as mixed finite element methods from the context of fluid
computations. Besides the immediate quasi-optimal a~priori error bounds, the
variational setting allows for a~posteriori error control with explicit
constants and adaptive mesh-refinement. The convergence of an adaptive
algorithm is proved. Numerical results on uniform and adaptive meshes are
included
Adaptive Nonconforming Finite Element Approximation of Eigenvalue Clusters
This paper analyses an adaptive nonconforming finite element method for eigenvalue clusters of self-adjoint operators and proves optimal convergence rates (with respect to the concept of nonlinear approximation classes) for the approximation of the invariant subspace spanned by the eigenfunctions of the eigenvalue cluster. Applications include eigenvalues of the Laplacian and of the Stokes system
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