Nonconforming finite element discretization for semilinear problems with trilinear nonlinearity

DOI10.1093/IMANUM/DRZ071zbMATH Open1460.65145arXiv1708.07627OpenAlexW3021640518MaRDI QIDQ4964083FDOQ4964083

C. Carstensen, Gouranga Mallik, Neela Nataraj

Publication date: 24 February 2021

Published in: IMA Journal of Numerical Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The Morley finite element method (FEM) is attractive for semilinear problems with the biharmonic operator as a leading term in the stream function vorticity formulation of 2D Navier-Stokes problem and in the von K'{a}rm'{a}n equations. This paper establishes a best-approximation a~priori error analysis and an a~posteriori error analysis of discrete solutions close to an arbitrary regular solution on the continuous level to semilinear problems with a trilinear nonlinearity. The analysis avoids any smallness assumptions on the data and so has to provide discrete stability by a perturbation analysis before the Newton-Kantorovic theorem can provide the existence of discrete solutions. An abstract framework for the stability analysis in terms of discrete operators from the medius analysis leads to new results on the nonconforming Crouzeix-Raviart FEM for second-order linear non-selfadjoint and indefinite elliptic problems with $L^{i}nfty$ coefficients. The paper identifies six parameters and sufficient conditions for the local a~priori and a~posteriori error control of conforming and nonconforming discretisations of a class of semilinear elliptic problems first in an abstract framework and then in the two semilinear applications. This leads to new best-approximation error estimates and to a~posteriori error estimates in terms of explicit residual-based error control for the conforming and Morley FEM.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.07627

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zbMATH Keywords

semilinear problemnonconforming finite element methodCrouzeix-Raviart finite elementMorley finite element

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Semilinear elliptic equations (35J61) Stability and convergence of numerical methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N12) Error bounds for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N15) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N30) Numerical solutions to abstract evolution equations (65J08) Biharmonic, polyharmonic functions and equations, Poisson's equation in two dimensions (31A30)

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