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Finite element approximation of a problem with a nonlinear Newton boundary condition (English)
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1 February 1998
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This paper is concerned with the study of the finite element approximation of an elliptic equation equipped with a nonlinear Newton boundary condition (the nonlinear term has a ``polynomial'' behaviour). The nonlinearity in the Newton condition causes a difficulty in proving the coercivity of the problem. The authors pay special attention to the effect of numerical integration in the nonlinear boundary condition. The integration formula is exact for (at least) first degree polynomials and leads, together with the uniform \(W^{1,2}(\Omega)\)-boundedness of approximate solutions (which is our only ``regularity'' information), to the order of numerical integration \(O(h^{1/2-\varepsilon})\) (\(\varepsilon>0\) arbitrarily small), instead of the expected order \(O(h)\). So, the numerical integration and the nonlinearity in the Newton boundary condition lead to a loss of order of accuracy, if strong monotonicity of the problem and sufficient regularity of the exact solution are missing.
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error bounds
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convergence
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finite element
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elliptic equation
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nonlinear Newton boundary condition
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coercivity
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