Uniform shift estimates for transmission problems and optimal rates of convergence for the parametric finite element method

DOI10.1007/978-3-642-41515-9_2MaRDI QIDQ2859129zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Hengguang Li, Victor Nistor, Yu Qiao

Publication date 6 November 2013

Published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1212.6287

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)

Abstract: Let $OmegasubsetR{R}^d$, $dgeqslant1$, be a bounded domain with piecewise smooth boundary $partialOmega$ and let $U$ be an open subset of a Banach space $Y$. Motivated by questions in "Uncertainty Quantification," we consider a parametric family $P=(P_y{)}_{yinU}$ of uniformly strongly elliptic, second order partial differential operators $P_y$ on $Omega$. We allow jump discontinuities in the coefficients. We establish a regularity result for the solution $u:OmegaimesUoRR$ of the parametric, elliptic boundary value/transmission problem $P_y{u}_y=f_y$, $yinU$, with mixed Dirichlet-Neumann boundary conditions in the case when the boundary and the interface are smooth and in the general case for $d=2$. Our regularity and well-posedness results are formulated in a scale of broken weighted Sobolev spaces $hatma{K}_{a+1}^{m+1}(Omega)$ of Babuv{s}ka-Kondrat'ev type in $Omega$, possibly augmented by some locally constant functions. This implies that the parametric, elliptic PDEs $(P_y{)}_{yinU}$ admit a shift theorem that is uniform in the parameter $yinU$. In turn, this then leads to $h^m$-quasi-optimal rates of convergence (i.e. algebraic orders of convergence) for the Galerkin approximations of the solution $u$, where the approximation spaces are defined using the "polynomial chaos expansion" of $u$ with respect to a suitable family of tensorized Lagrange polynomials, following the method developed by Cohen, Devore, and Schwab (2010).

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