Some error estimates for the lumped mass finite element method for a parabolic problem

DOI10.1090/S0025-5718-2011-02503-2zbMath1251.65129MaRDI QIDQ3117199

Vidar Thomée, Raytcho D. Lazarov, Panagiotis Chatzipantelidis

Publication date: 17 February 2012

Published in: Mathematics of Computation (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

Galerkin method; heat equation; error estimates; semidiscretization; backward Euler method; Crank-Nicolson methods; lumped mass method; nonsmooth initial data

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

35K05: Heat equation

65M06: Finite difference methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs

65M60: Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs

65M15: Error bounds for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs

65M20: Method of lines for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs