Adaptive fixed point iterations for semilinear elliptic partial differential equations (Q2334739)

The problem is to find the solution: \(u \in X : F(u) = 0\), where \(F: X \rightarrow X'\). The discretization is resulting in a sequence of linear problems by the finite element method, and the development of an \(\epsilon\)-robust a posteriori error analysis is given. The final estimate bounds the error in terms of the (elementwise) finite element approximation (FEM-error) and the error caused by the fixed point iteration of the original problem. Then, in order to define a fully adaptive fixed-point Galerkin scheme, an interplay between the adaptive method and the adaptive finite element approach is used. Some numerical experiments which show that the proposed scheme is reliable and \( \epsilon\)-robust for reasonable choices of initial guesses are given.