Unified a priori analysis of four second-order FEM for fourth-order quadratic semilinear problems

DOI10.1007/S00211-023-01356-WMaRDI QIDQ6135911zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors C. Carstensen, Neela Nataraj, Gopikrishnan C. Remesan, Devika Shylaja

Publication date 28 August 2023

Published in Numerische Mathematik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.06171

zbMATH Keywords

discontinuous Galerkininterior penalty methodMorley finite element methodNavier-Stokes equationssemilinear elliptic problemsvon Kármán equations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Semilinear elliptic equations (35J61) Navier-Stokes equations (35Q30) Stability and convergence of numerical methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N12) 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) Navier-Stokes equations for incompressible viscous fluids (76D05)

Abstract: A unified framework for fourth-order semilinear problems with trilinear nonlinearity and general source allows for quasi-best approximation with lowest-order finite element methods. This paper establishes the stability and a priori error control in the piecewise energy and weaker Sobolev norms under minimal hypotheses. Applications include the stream function vorticity formulation of the incompressible 2D Navier-Stokes equations and the von K'{a}rm'{a}n equations with Morley, discontinuous Galerkin, $C^0$ interior penalty, and weakly over-penalized symmetric interior penalty schemes. The proposed new discretizations consider quasi-optimal smoothers for the source term and smoother-type modifications inside the nonlinear terms.

Review text

In this paper, a unified framework is considered for fourth-order semilinear elliptic problems with trilinear nonlinearity and with a source term in a bounded polygonal Lipschitz domain, which allows for quasi-best approximation with lowest-order finite element methods. This applies simultaneously to the Morley finite element method, the discontinuous Galerkin, the \(C_0\) interior penalty and the weakly over-penalized symmetric interior penalty scheme for the approximation of a regular solution to a fourth-order semilinear problem with the biharmonic operator as the leading term. The results are verified for the 2D Navier-Stokes equations in the stream function vorticity formulation and for the von Kármán equations.

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