Local error estimates of the finite element method for an elliptic problem with a Dirac source term

DOI10.1002/NUM.22186MaRDI QIDQ4603191zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Silvia Bertoluzza, A. Decoene, Loïc Lacouture, Sébastien Martin

Publication date 19 February 2018

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1505.03032

zbMATH Keywords

Dirichlet problemfinite element methodGreen functionDirac measurelocal error estimates

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Error bounds for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N15) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N30)

Abstract: The solutions of elliptic problems with a Dirac measure in right-hand side are not H1 and therefore the convergence of the finite element solutions is suboptimal. Graded meshes are standard remedy to recover quasi-optimality, namely optimality up to a log-factor, for low order finite elements in L2-norm. Optimal (or quasi-optimal for the lowest order case) convergence has been shown in L2-seminorm, where the L2-seminorm is defined as the L2-norm on a subdomain which excludes the singularity. Here we show a quasi-optimal convergence for the Hs-seminorm, s extgreater{} 0, and an optimal convergence in H1-seminorm for the lowest order case, on a family of quasi- uniform meshes in dimension 2. This question is motivated by the use of the Dirac measure as a reduced model in physical problems, and a high accuracy at the singularity of the finite element method is not required. Our results are obtained using local Nitsche and Schatz-type error estimates, a weak version of Aubin-Nitsche duality lemma and a discrete inf-sup condition. These theoretical results are confirmed by numerical illustrations.

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