Adaptive Finite Element Methods for Elliptic Problems with Discontinuous Coefficients

DOI10.1137/130905757zbMATH Open1285.65078arXiv1301.3203OpenAlexW2019644252MaRDI QIDQ5397606FDOQ5397606

Authors: Andrea Bonito, Ronald DeVore, Ricardo H. Nochetto 

Publication date: 24 February 2014

Published in: SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Elliptic partial differential equations (PDEs) with discontinuous diffusion coefficients occur in application domains such as diffusions through porous media, electro-magnetic field propagation on heterogeneous media, and diffusion processes on rough surfaces. The standard approach to numerically treating such problems using finite element methods is to assume that the discontinuities lie on the boundaries of the cells in the initial triangulation. However, this does not match applications where discontinuities occur on curves, surfaces, or manifolds, and could even be unknown beforehand. One of the obstacles to treating such discontinuity problems is that the usual perturbation theory for elliptic PDEs assumes bounds for the distortion of the coefficients in the $L_{i}nfty$ norm and this in turn requires that the discontinuities are matched exactly when the coefficients are approximated. We present a new approach based on distortion of the coefficients in an $L_q$ norm with $q<infty$ which therefore does not require the exact matching of the discontinuities. We then use this new distortion theory to formulate new adaptive finite element methods (AFEMs) for such discontinuity problems. We show that such AFEMs are optimal in the sense of distortion versus number of computations, and report insightful numerical results supporting our analysis.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1301.3203

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zbMATH Keywords

optimal rates of convergencediscontinuous coefficientselliptic problemadaptive finite element methodsperturbation estimates

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Complexity and performance of numerical algorithms (65Y20) Boundary value problems for second-order elliptic equations (35J25) PDEs with low regular coefficients and/or low regular data (35R05) Error bounds for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N15) 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)

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