Stability of mixed FEMs for non-selfadjoint indefinite second-order linear elliptic PDEs

DOI10.1007/S00211-022-01282-3zbMATH Open1491.65128arXiv2203.02716OpenAlexW2963355225WikidataQ114231019 ScholiaQ114231019MaRDI QIDQ2126133FDOQ2126133

C. Carstensen, Neela Nataraj, Amiya K. Pani

Publication date: 14 April 2022

Published in: Numerische Mathematik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: For a well-posed non-selfadjoint indefinite second-order linear elliptic PDE with general coefficients $mathbfA,mathbfb,gamma$ in $L^{i}nfty$ and symmetric and uniformly positive definite coefficient matrix $mathbfA$, this paper proves that mixed finite element problems are uniquely solvable and the discrete solutions are uniformly bounded, whenever the underlying shape-regular triangulation is sufficiently fine. This applies to the Raviart-Thomas (RT) and Brezzi-Douglas-Marini (BDM) finite element families of any order and in any space dimension and leads to the best-approximation estimate in $H(div)imes{L}^2$ as well as in in $L^{2}imes{L}^2$ up to oscillations. This generalises earlier contributions for piecewise Lipschitz continuous coefficients to $L^{i}nfty$ coefficients. The compactness argument of Schatz and Wang for the displacement-oriented problem does not apply immediately to the mixed formulation in $H(div)imes{L}^2$. But it allows the uniform approximation of some $L^2$ contributions and can be combined with a recent $L^2$ best-approximation result from the medius analysis. This technique circumvents any regularity assumption and the application of a Fortin interpolation operator.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.02716

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zbMATH Keywords

Raviart-Thomas and Brezzi-Douglas-Marini finite element familiessecond-order linear elliptic PDE

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Boundary value problems for second-order elliptic equations (35J25) Stability and convergence of numerical methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N12) Error bounds for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N15) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N30)

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