Best approximation property in the $W^1_{\infty }$ norm for finite element methods on graded meshes

DOI10.1090/S0025-5718-2011-02546-9zbMath1244.65171MaRDI QIDQ5389431

Lars B. Wahlbin, Alan Demlow, Dmitriy Leykekhman, Alfred H. Schatz

Publication date: 26 April 2012

Published in: Mathematics of Computation (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

Dirichlet problem; finite elements; boundary value problem; mesh grading; maximum norm; best approximation property; simplicial mesh uniformity conditions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

65N15: Error bounds for boundary value problems involving PDEs

65N30: Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs

35J05: Laplace operator, Helmholtz equation (reduced wave equation), Poisson equation

65N50: Mesh generation, refinement, and adaptive methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs

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