Convergence and optimality of the adaptive Morley element method

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Abstract: This paper is devoted to the convergence and optimality analysis of the adaptive Morley element method for the fourth order elliptic problem. A new technique is developed to establish a quasi-orthogonality which is crucial for the convergence analysis of the adaptive nonconforming method. By introducing a new parameter-dependent error estimator and further establishing a discrete reliability property, sharp convergence and optimality estimates are then fully proved for the fourth order elliptic problem.


An analysis of the convergence and optimality of the adaptive version of the Morley element method for a 4th-order elliptic problem is carried out. Whereas adaptive conforming finite element methods applied to second order elliptic problems have been extensively studied, very few results exist for nonconforming methods in fourth order problems, the main difficulty being the nonconformity of the discrete space and the lack of the Galerkin orthogonality. The analysis here is based on a quasi-orthogonality result which holds specifically for the Morley element method and a new parameter dependent estimator. With the additional help of the discrete reliability of the estimator, it is possible to show convergence and optimality of the adaptive algorithm based on the Morley element method. The generalization to the nonconforming linear elements in two and three dimensions is also discussed.



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