An adaptive finite element method for minimal surfaces.

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Authors Kunibert G. Siebert, Willy Dörfler

Publication date 2003

zbMATH Keywords

A posteriori error estimatesfinite element discretizationsgrid adaptationharmonic continuationsminimal surfacesnumerical examples

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Discrete approximations in optimal control (49M25) Minimal surfaces and optimization (49Q05) Minimal surfaces in differential geometry, surfaces with prescribed mean curvature (53A10) Numerical optimization and variational techniques (65K10)

Review text

The paper is devoted to the important and difficult problem of constructing of numerical methods with an effective adaptation procedure for the well known nonlinear problem of finding the minimal surface containing a given closed curve. The authors consider the case when the curve is given in \({\mathbb R}^d\) as a diffeomorphic image of the boundary \(\partial D\) of the unite disk \(D\). Then the problem can be reduced to one dealing with harmonic continuations of functions given on \(\partial D\) under special nonlinear conditions. This problem is discretized making use of the usual spline subspaces on triangulations of the disk. Fairly interesting theoretical results are presented about the accuracy of the methods under consideration. A posteriori error estimates are given under reasonable smoothness conditions. An adaptation procedure of the grid is examined theoretically and practically. Numerical examples are given. For the entire collection see [Zbl 1007.00073].

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