A priori and a posteriori error analysis of the lowest-order NCVEM for second-order linear indefinite elliptic problems

DOI10.1007/S00211-022-01296-XMaRDI QIDQ2149058zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors C. Carstensen, Rekha Khot, Amiya K. Pani

Publication date 28 June 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/2101.08472

zbMATH Keywords

convergencegeneral linear second-order PDEnon-selfadjoint indefinite ellipticnonconformingpolygonal Lipschitz domainpolygonal mesh refinementreduced elliptic regularitystabilityvirtual element method

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

A priori estimates in context of PDEs (35B45) Second-order elliptic equations (35J15) 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) Mesh generation, refinement, and adaptive methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N50)

Abstract: The nonconforming virtual element method (NCVEM) for the approximation of the weak solution to a general linear second-order non-selfadjoint indefinite elliptic PDE in a polygonal domain is analyzed under reduced elliptic regularity. The main tool in the a priori error analysis is the connection between the nonconforming virtual element space and the Sobolev space $H_0^1(Omega)$ by a right-inverse $J$ of the interpolation operator $I_h$. The stability of the discrete solution allows for the proof of existence of a unique discrete solution, of a discrete inf-sup estimate and, consequently, for optimal error estimates in the $H^1$ and $L^2$ norms. The explicit residual-based a posteriori error estimate for the NCVEM is reliable and efficient up to the stabilization and oscillation terms. Numerical experiments on different types of polygonal meshes illustrate the robustness of an error estimator and support the improved convergence rate of an adaptive mesh-refinement in comparison to the uniform mesh-refinement.

Review text

In order to solve a homogeneous Dirichlet boundary value problem attached to a general linear second-order non-selfadjoint indefinite elliptic PDE in a Lipschitz polygonal domain, the authors use a nonconforming virtual element method (NCVEM). With some technicalities they prove a discrete inf-sup estimate and optimal a priori error estimates as well as both reliability and efficiency of an explicit residual-based a posteriori error estimator. Some numerical experiments are carried out on three computational benchmark problems (smooth solution on a square domain, non-smooth solution on an L-shape domain and internal layer solution to Helmholtz problem). They underline the sharpness of the a priori as well as of the a posteriori error analyses and also illustrate the superiority of adaptive over uniform mesh-refining.

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