Analysis of Galerkin methods for the fully nonlinear Monge-Ampère equation

DOI10.1007/S10915-010-9439-1zbMATH Open1229.65213arXiv0712.1240OpenAlexW2101823897MaRDI QIDQ649959FDOQ649959

Authors: Xiaobing Feng, Michael Neilan 

Publication date: 25 November 2011

Published in: Journal of Scientific Computing (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: This paper develops and analyzes finite element Galerkin and spectral Galerkin methods for approximating viscosity solutions of the fully nonlinear Monge-Amp`ere equation $det(D^2{u}^0)=f$ based on the vanishing moment method which was developed by the authors in cite{Feng2,Feng1}. In this approach, the Monge-Amp`ere equation is approximated by the fourth order quasilinear equation $-epsilonDelt{a}^2{u}^{e}psilon+det{D}^2{u}^{e}psilon=f$ accompanied by appropriate boundary conditions. This new approach allows one to construct convergent Galerkin numerical methods for the fully nonlinear Monge-Amp`ere equation, a task which has been impracticable before. In this paper, we first develop some finite element and spectral Galerkin methods for approximating the solution $u^{e}psilon$ of the regularized fourth order problem. We then derive optimal order error estimates for the proposed numerical methods. In particular, we track explicitly the dependence of the error bounds on the parameter $vepsi$, for the error $u^{e}psilon-u^{e}psilo{n}_h$. Finally, using the Aygris finite element method as an example, we present a detailed numerical study of the rates of convergence in terms of powers of $vepsi$ for the error $u^0-u_h^{v}epsi$, and numerically examine what is the "best" mesh size $h$ in relation to $vepsi$ in order to achieve these rates.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0712.1240

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zbMATH Keywords

numerical examplesstabilityerror estimatesfinite element methodsfully nonlinear PDEsviscosity solutionsmoment solutionsvanishing moment methodArgyris element methodspectral Galerkin methodsMonge-Ampère equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Monge-Ampère equations (35J96) 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) Spectral, collocation and related methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N35)

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