A reliable residual based a posteriori error estimator for a quadratic finite element method for the elliptic obstacle problem

DOI10.1515/cmam-2015-0005zbMath1315.65057arXiv1404.3147MaRDI QIDQ2344198

Thirupathi Gudi, Kamana Porwal

Publication date: 12 May 2015

Published in: Computational Methods in Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1404.3147

zbMATH Keywords

variational inequalities; Lagrange multiplier; numerical experiments; optimal error estimates; a posteriori error estimate; elliptic obstacle problem; quadratic finite element method

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

49J40: Variational inequalities

49M25: Discrete approximations in optimal control

65K15: Numerical methods for variational inequalities and related problems