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

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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 C0 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 C0-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






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