Explicit k-dependence for P_k finite elements in W^m,p error estimates: application to probabilistic laws for accuracy analysis

DOI10.1080/00036811.2019.1698727MaRDI QIDQ5158607zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Joël Chaskalovic, Franck Assous

Publication date 25 October 2021

Published in Applicable Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.06821

zbMATH Keywords

Banach Sobolev spacesBramble-Hilbert lemmaCéa lemmaerror estimatesfinite elementsprobabilistic laws

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) Probabilistic methods, particle methods, etc. for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N75)

Abstract: We derive an explicit $k-$dependence in $W^{m,p}$ error estimates for $P_k$ Lagrange finite elements. Two laws of probability are established to measure the relative accuracy between $P_{k_1}$ and $P_{k_2}$ finite elements ($k_1<k_2$) in terms of $W^{m,p}$-norms. We further prove a weak asymptotic relation in $D^{\prime }(R)$ between these probabilistic laws when difference $k_2-k_1$ goes to infinity. Moreover, as expected, one finds that $P_{k_2}$ finite element is {em surely more accurate} than $P_{k_1}$, for sufficiently small values of the mesh size $h$. Nevertheless, our results also highlight cases where $P_{k_1}$ is {em more likely accurate} than $P_{k_2}$, for a range of values of $h$. Hence, this approach brings a new perspective on how to compare two finite elements, which is not limited to the rate of convergence.

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