A Posteriori Error Bounds For Piecewise Linear Approximate Solutions of Elliptic Equations of Monotone Type (Q4024675)

The author investigates a nonlinear elliptic problem of monotone type \(- \Delta u+f(x,y,u,\nabla u)=0\) in \(\Omega\), \(u=0\) on \(\partial\Omega\), where \(\Omega\) is a bounded polyhedral domain in \(\mathbb{R}^ 2\) with boundary \(\partial\Omega\). For the piecewise linear approximate solution of this equation with a Neumann condition a new method for computing a posteriori error bounds is developed. The proposed method is based on a relation between a line integral on an edge of a triangle and volume integrals in the triangle. The error bounds are quadratic functions of free parameters. Optimal error bounds are obtained by solving quadratic minimalization problems. The main feature of the proposed method is that the error estimates do not require the high regularity for the exact solution of the original problem, the \(H^ 1\) regularity only is sufficient. Numerical results are also given.