Maximum norm error estimates for Neumann boundary value problems on graded meshes

DOI10.1093/IMANUM/DRY076zbMATH Open1466.65176arXiv1804.10904OpenAlexW2912714924WikidataQ128911053 ScholiaQ128911053MaRDI QIDQ5857314FDOQ5857314

Thomas Apel, Max Winkler, Johannes Pfefferer, Sergejs Rogovs

Publication date: 31 March 2021

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

Abstract: This paper deals with a priori pointwise error estimates for the finite element solution of boundary value problems with Neumann boundary conditions in polygonal domains. Due to the corners of the domain, the convergence rate of the numerical solutions can be lower than in case of smooth domains. As a remedy the use of local mesh refinement near the corners is investigated. In order to prove quasi-optimal a priori error estimates regularity results in weighted Sobolev spaces are exploited. This is the first work on the Neumann boundary value problem where both the regularity of the data is exactly specified and the sharp convergence order $h^{2}lvertlnhvert$ in the case of piecewise linear finite element approximations is obtained. As an extension we show the same rate for the approximate solution of a semilinear boundary value problem. The proof relies in this case on the supercloseness between the Ritz projection to the continuous solution and the finite element solution.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.10904

zbMATH Keywords

semilinear problemsgraded meshesfinite element discretizationsecond-order elliptic equationsmaximum norm estimates

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Smoothness and regularity of solutions to PDEs (35B65) 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) Mesh generation, refinement, and adaptive methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N50) Second-order elliptic equations (35J15)

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