A posteriori error estimates for the virtual element method

Boundary value problems for second-order elliptic equations (35J25) Stability and convergence of numerical methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N12) Error bounds for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N15) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N30)

Abstract: An posteriori error analysis for the virtual element method (VEM) applied to general elliptic problems is presented. The resulting error estimator is of residual-type and applies on very general polygonal/polyhedral meshes. The estimator is fully computable as it relies only on quantities available from the VEM solution, namely its degrees of freedom and element-wise polynomial projection. Upper and lower bounds of the error estimator with respect to the VEM approximation error are proven. The error estimator is used to drive adaptive mesh refinement in a number of test problems. Mesh adaptation is particularly simple to implement since elements with consecutive co-planar edges/faces are allowed and, therefore, locally adapted meshes do not require any local mesh post-processing.

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The main statement of this paper can be summarized as follows: ``(\dots) (the authors) present a new residual-type a posteriori error analysis for the \(C^0\)-conforming virtual element method (\dots) for the discretization of second-order linear elliptic reaction-convection-diffusion problems (\dots) (page 858). They start with an introduction into the literature and go over to their elliptic problem and take a look at the variational form. After that the virtual element method itself is considered w.r.t. the polygonal and polyhedral partitions as well as the virtual element space. The section is closed by the discrete formulation and followed by the approximation properties. Based an this, they present an a posteriori error analysis, where they focus on a posteriori error bounds and lower bounds. Finally, numerical results are given, where in addition, an adaptive algorithm is applied. The paper closes with a conclusion and outlook.

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