Fine error bounds for approximate asymmetric saddle point problems

arXiv2307.03742MaRDI QIDQ6510967FDOQ6510967

Abstract: The theory of mixed finite element methods for solving different types of elliptic partial differential equations in saddle-point formulation is well established since many decades. However, this topic was mostly studied for variational formulations defined upon the same finite-element product spaces of both shape- and test-pairs of primal variable-multiplier. Whenever these two product spaces are different the saddle point problem is asymmetric. It turns out that the conditions to be satisfied by the finite elements product spaces stipulated in the few works on this case may be of limited use in practice. The purpose of this paper is to provide an in-depth analysis of the well-posedness and the uniform stability of asymmetric approximate saddle point problems, based on the theory of continuous linear operators on Hilbert spaces. Our approach leads to necessary and sufficient conditions for such properties to hold, expressed in a readily exploitable form with fine constants. In particular standard interpolation theory suffices to estimate the error of a conforming method.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N30) Variational methods for problems in mechanics (70G75) Thermodynamics in solid mechanics (74A15) Variational methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M30) Variational methods applied to problems in optics and electromagnetic theory (78M30) Variational methods applied to problems in thermodynamics and heat transfer (80M30)

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