Adaptive finite element for semilinear convection-diffusion problems

DOI10.1023/A:1018946919497MaRDI QIDQ1373118zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors L. Pouly, J. Pousin

Publication date 14 April 1998

Published in Advances in Computational Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1018946919497

zbMATH Keywords

adaptive finite elementboundary layerDirichlet problemequidistributed error estimatesnumerical examplessemilinear convection-diffusion problems

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonlinear boundary value problems for ordinary differential equations (34B15) Numerical solution of boundary value problems involving ordinary differential equations (65L10) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz, Galerkin and collocation methods for ordinary differential equations (65L60) Error bounds for numerical methods for ordinary differential equations (65L70)

Review text

The authors are interested in the Dirichlet problem for a differential equation of the form \[ -(a(x)u')'+b(x)u'+c(x)u=f(x,u) \] on the interval \(0\leq x \leq 1\). \(a(x)\) is assumed positive and bounded away from zero, and \(f(x,u)\) can be nonlinear. They present a readily computable estimate of the error in solution of a finite element discretization of the problem, based on residual size in each element. Making use of the Fréchet derivative, the a posteriori estimate is shown to converge to the true error when the problem is \(H^1\)-coercive. The error estimator can be used to specify element sizes based on the equidistribution principle. Examples of the success of this prescription in the \(H^1\)-coercive case are presented. An alternative prescription enforces the requirement that no mesh elements can remain large, even if the estimated error is small, and is shown to be effective even in the non-coercive case. Several nonlinear examples exhibiting boundary layer behavior are presented.

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