A priori and a posteriori error control of discontinuous Galerkin finite element methods for the von Kármán equations

DOI10.1093/IMANUM/DRY003zbMATH Open1465.65129arXiv1708.07815OpenAlexW2963175427MaRDI QIDQ5113331FDOQ5113331

Neela Nataraj, C. Carstensen, Gouranga Mallik

Publication date: 4 June 2020

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

Abstract: This paper analyses discontinuous Galerkin finite element methods (DGFEM) to approximate a regular solution to the von K'arm'an equations defined on a polygonal domain. A discrete inf-sup condition sufficient for the stability of the discontinuous Galerkin discretization of a well-posed linear problem is established and this allows the proof of local existence and uniqueness of a discrete solution to the non-linear problem with a Banach fixed point theorem. The Newton scheme is locally second-order convergent and appears to be a robust solution strategy up to machine precision. A comprehensive a priori and a posteriori energy-norm error analysis relies on one sufficiently large stabilization parameter and sufficiently fine triangulations. In case the other stabilization parameter degenerates towards infinity, the DGFEM reduces to a novel $C^0$ interior penalty method (IPDG). Moreover, a reliable and efficient a posteriori error analysis immediately follows for the DGFEM of this paper, while the different norms in the known $C^0$-IPDG lead to complications with some non-residual type remaining terms. Numerical experiments confirm the best-approximation results and the equivalence of the error and the error estimators. A related adaptive mesh-refining algorithm leads to optimal empirical convergence rates for a non convex domain.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.07815

zbMATH Keywords

a priori error estimatesa posteriori error controlNewton schemediscontinuous Galerkin FEMvon Kármán equations\(C^0\)-interior penalty method

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs in connection with mechanics of deformable solids (35Q74) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N30) Mesh generation, refinement, and adaptive methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N50) Plates (74K20) Boundary value problems for higher-order elliptic systems (35J58)

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