Interior numerical approximation of boundary value problems with a distributional data

DOI10.1002/NUM.20086MaRDI QIDQ3370524zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Victor Nistor, Ivo Babuška

Publication date 7 February 2006

Published in Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0410184

zbMATH Keywords

distributionserror boundgeneralized finite element methodharmonic functionLaplace equationNeumann boundary value problemSobolev space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Laplace operator, Helmholtz equation (reduced wave equation), Poisson equation (35J05) Distributions and ultradistributions as boundary values of analytic functions (46F20) Error bounds for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N15) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N30)

Abstract: We study the approximation properties of a harmonic function $uinHsp1-k(Omega)$, $k>0$, on relatively compact sub-domain $A$ of $Omega$, using the Generalized Finite Element Method. For smooth, bounded domains $Omega$, we obtain that the GFEM--approximation $u_S$ satisfies $|u-u_S{|}_{Hsp1(A)}leC{h}^{gamma}|u{|}_{Hsp1-k(Omega)}$, where $h$ is the typical size of the ``elements defining the GFEM--space $S$ and $gammage0$ is such that the local approximation spaces contain all polynomials of degree $k+gamma+1$. The main technical result is an extension of the classical super-approximation results of Nitsche and Schatz cite{NitscheSchatz72} and, especially, cite{NitscheSchatz74}. It turns out that, in addition to the usual ``energy Sobolev spaces $H^1$, one must use also the negative order Sobolev spaces $Hsp-l$, $lge0$, which are defined by duality and contain the distributional boundary data.

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