Functional a posteriori error estimates for boundary element methods

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Abstract: Functional error estimates are well-established tools for a posteriori error estimation and related adaptive mesh-refinement for the finite element method (FEM). The present work proposes a first functional error estimate for the boundary element method (BEM). One key feature is that the derived error estimates are independent of the BEM discretization and provide guaranteed lower and upper bounds for the unknown error. In particular, our analysis covers Galerkin BEM and the collocation method, what makes the approach of particular interest for scientific computations and engineering applications. Numerical experiments for the Laplace problem confirm the theoretical results.


In this impressive paper, the authors are concerned with accurate Galerkin as well as collocation BEM solutions to a Dirichlet problem attached to the Laplace equation in interior and exterior 2D and 3D domains. As an absolute novelty, they provide functional error estimates for BEM independent of both discretization methods mentioned above. They also provide guaranteed upper and lower bounds for the unknown energy error. The upper error bound is based on the Dirichlet principle, while the lower error bound is based either on a variational problem in terms of a potential or a mixed problem in both 2D and 3D cases. These error estimates lead to an efficient adaptive mesh-refinement algorithm. Some numerical experiments carried out on 2D problems plainly confirm the theoretical results.



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