Convergence of goal-oriented adaptive finite element methods for nonsymmetric problems

DOI10.1002/NUM.22002zbMATH Open1337.65139arXiv1108.3660OpenAlexW2165024589WikidataQ59394148 ScholiaQ59394148MaRDI QIDQ2804347FDOQ2804347

Sara Pollock, Michael Holst

Publication date: 29 April 2016

Published in: Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this article we develop convergence theory for a class of goal-oriented adaptive finite element algorithms for second order nonsymmetric linear elliptic equations. In particular, we establish contraction results for a method of this type for Dirichlet problems involving the elliptic operator L u = div (A grad u) - (b,grad u) - cu, with A Lipschitz, almost-everywhere symmetric positive definite, with b divergence-free, and with c >= 0. We first describe the problem class and review some standard facts concerning conforming finite element discretization and error-estimate-driven adaptive finite element methods (AFEM). We then describe a goal-oriented variation of standard AFEM (GOAFEM). Following the recent work of Mommer and Stevenson for symmetric problems, we establish contraction of GOAFEM and convergence in the sense of the goal function. Our analysis approach is signficantly different from that of Mommer and Stevenson, combining the recent contraction frameworks developed by Cascon, Kreuzer, Nochetto and Siebert; by Nochetto, Siebert and Veeser; and by Holst, Tsogtgerel and Zhu. We include numerical results demonstrating performance of our method with standard goal-oriented strategies on a convection problem.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1108.3660

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zbMATH Keywords

contractionconvergenceoptimalitya posteriori estimatesa priori estimatesapproximation theorydualityelliptic equationsadaptive methodsquasi-orthogonalitynonsymmetric problemsgoal orientedresidual-based error estimator

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stability and convergence of numerical methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N12) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N30)

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