scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1163341

MaRDI QIDQ4394865zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors P. Diez, Antonio Huerta, Juan-José Egozcue

Publication date 10 December 1998

zbMATH Keywords

angle between subspacesasymptotic exactnessaverage behavioreffectivity indexerror estimatorfinite element error estimationPoisson equationprobabilistic point of viewrandomized error function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Laplace operator, Helmholtz equation (reduced wave equation), Poisson equation (35J05) Probabilistic methods, stochastic differential equations (65C99) Error bounds for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N15) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N30) Complexity and performance of numerical algorithms (65Y20)

Review text

A method for assessing the quality of an error estimator and improving it is presented. The originality of the analysis is to use a randomized error function in order to a priori evaluate the average behavior of the estimator. The systematic bias introduced in the estimate can, hence, be corrected and an unbiased estimate is obtained. This analysis requires to introduce mathematical tools which are not usual in the domain of the finite element error estimation. Thus, we develop a set of hyperspherical coordinates allowing to integrate in the hyperspheres. We also introduce the generalized concept of angle between subspaces and we use it to synthetically describe the relative position of two subspaces. The average efficiency of the error estimator is proved to depend on this synthetic information. Moreover, we give a simple expression that approximately describes this average behavior. The application to a simple example of error estimation in a bidimensional Poisson equation with analytical solution shows that this theory can be used in both the analysis and the practical use of the error estimator. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0884.00048].

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