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

DOI10.1007/S00211-022-01282-3MaRDI QIDQ2126133zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors C. Carstensen, Neela Nataraj, Amiya K. Pani

Publication date 14 April 2022

Published in Numerische Mathematik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

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

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)

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.

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