Bounds of interpolation error for arbitrary narrow quadrilateral quasi-Wilson elements (Q2779009)

The authors explore bounds of the interpolation error for arbitrary narrow quadrilateral quasi-Wilson elements.NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEWilson elements satisfy the patch test and converge only when the meshes are parallelograms. But these elements are not converge for arbitrary quadrilateral meshes. So, some improved Wilson elements or quasi-Wilson elements had been presented when the mesh subdimensions satisfy regularity conditions. \textit{P. G. Ciarlet} and \textit{P.-A. Raviart} [Computer Methods appl. Mech. Engin. 1, 217-249 (1972; Zbl 0261.65079)] estimated the errors of interpolation by isoparametric finite elements under two conditions NEWLINE\[NEWLINE(1)\qquad {h'\over h}\geq \sigma_0> 0,\qquad (2)\qquad |\cos\theta_i|\leq \sigma_1< 1,\quad i= 1,2,3,4,NEWLINE\]NEWLINE where \(h\) and \(h'\) stand for the longest and the smallest side of an element \(k\), respectively, and \(\theta_i\), \(1\leq i\leq 4\), are four angles of \(k\).NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINE\textit{A. Zenísek} and \textit{M. Vanmaele} [Numer. Math. 72, No. 1, 123-141 (1995; Zbl 0839.65005)] obtained interpolation theorems for narrow quadrilateral isoparametric finite elements without satisfying (1).NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEHerein, using the interpolation theorem for narrow quadrilateral isoparametric finite elements and related methods, bounds of the interpolation error for arbitrary narrow quadrilateral quasi-Wilson elements are obtained in the case when the condition \(\rho_k/h_k\geq \sigma_0>0\) is not satisfied, where \(h_k\) is the diameter of the element \(k\) and \(\rho_k\) is the diameter of an inscribed circle in \(k\). The interpolation error is \(O(h^2_k)\) in \(L^2(k)\)-norm, and \(O(h_k\)) in \(H'(k)\)-norm provided that the interpolated function belongs to \(H^2(k)\).