A new T-compatibility condition and its application to the discretization of the damped time-harmonic Galbrun's equation

Authors Martin Halla, Christoph Lehrenfeld, Paul Stocker

Publication date 5 September 2022

Wave equation (35L05) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N30) PDEs in connection with astronomy and astrophysics (35Q85)

Abstract: We consider the approximation of weakly T-coercive operators. The main property to ensure the convergence thereof is the regularity of the approximation (in the vocabulary of discrete approximation schemes). In a previous work the existence of discrete operators

T_{n}

which converge to

T

in a discrete norm was shown to be sufficient to obtain regularity. Although this framework proved usefull for many applications for some instances the former assumption is too strong. Thus in the present article we report a weaker criterium for which the discrete operators

T_{n}

only have to converge point-wise, but in addition a weak T-coercivity condition has to be satisfied on the discrete level. We apply the new framework to prove the convergence of certain

H^{1}

-conforming finite element discretizations of the damped time-harmonic Galbrun's equation, which is used to model the oscillations of stars. A main ingredient in the latter analysis is the uniformly stable invertibility of the divergence operator on certain spaces, which is related to the topic of divergence free elements for the Stokes equation.

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