Finite element error estimates on geometrically perturbed domains

DOI10.1007/S10915-020-01285-YMaRDI QIDQ2007010zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Yanyan Li

Publication date 12 October 2020

Published in Journal of Scientific Computing (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.07532

zbMATH Keywords

error estimatefinite element methodgeometrically perturbed domainLaplace problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Boundary value problems for second-order elliptic equations (35J25) Error bounds for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N15) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N30) Stokes and related (Oseen, etc.) flows (76D07)

Abstract: We develop error estimates for the finite element approximation of elliptic partial differential equations on perturbed domains, i.e. when the computational domain does not match the real geometry. The result shows that the error related to the domain can be a dominating factor in the finite element discretization error. The main result consists of $H^1-$ and $L_2-$ error estimates for the Laplace problem. Theoretical considerations are validated by a computational example.

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The authors consider the solution of the Laplace problem in a domain \(\Omega\) which geometry is not known exactly, e.g., the information on the geometry could come from some measurements. For solving this problem in the perturbed domain \(\Omega_r\) iso-parametric finite elements are used. Estimates of the error \(u - u_h\) in the \(H^1\)- and in the \(L_2\)-norm are derived. Hereby denotes \(u\) the exact solution of the boundary value problem in the domain \(\Omega\) and \(u_h\) is the finite element solution. It is shown that the error behaves like \(\Upsilon^{1/2}+ h^r\) in the \(H^1\)-norm and like \(\Upsilon + h^{r+1}\) in the \(L_2\)-norm. Hereby is \(r\) the polynomial degree of the finite element functions in each space direction, \(h\) the discretization parameter, and \(\Upsilon\) the Hausdorff distance between the two domains \(\Omega\) and \(\Omega_r\). Under additional assumptions it is proved that the error in the \(H^1\)-norm behaves like \(\Upsilon + h^r\). Numerical examples for the Laplace problem in two and three dimensions are presented which demonstrate this convergence behavior. Additionally, numerical experiments for the Stokes problem in two dimensions are given.

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