The dual-weighted residual estimator realized on polygonal meshes (Q2416924)

The paper is concerned with the derivation of a goal-oriented error estimator. The model problem considered is the Poisson equation on a two-dimensional polygonal domain equipped with mixed Dirichlet-Neumann boundary conditions. The equation is discretized by the BEM-based finite element method with a polygonal mesh. The estimator is derived using the dual-weighted residual method with two approaches to localization: a classical approach and a variational approach employing the partition of unity. The great advantage of the proposed method is that it uses approximation on only one element and does not require higher-order global approximation or local higher-order approximation on patched meshes. The efficiency and applicability of the method are illustrated on numerical examples with various domains, boundary conditions, and goal functionals.