Error analysis for a Crouzeix-Raviart approximation of the obstacle problem

arXiv2302.01646MaRDI QIDQ6425329FDOQ6425329

Publication date: 3 February 2023

Abstract: In the present paper, we study a Crouzeix-Raviart approximation of the obstacle problem, which imposes the obstacle constraint in the midpoints (i.e., barycenters) of the elements of a triangulation. We establish a priori error estimates imposing natural regularity assumptions, which are optimal, and the reliability and efficiency of a primal-dual type a posteriori error estimator for general obstacles and involving data oscillation terms stemming only from the right-hand side. Numerical experiments are carried out to support the theoretical findings.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Variational methods for second-order elliptic equations (35J20) Variational inequalities (49J40) Numerical methods involving duality (49M29) 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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