Stability of Lagrange elements for the mixed Laplacian

DOI10.1007/S10092-009-0009-6zbMATH Open1181.65132arXiv0907.3438OpenAlexW2165665109WikidataQ59038923 ScholiaQ59038923MaRDI QIDQ843751FDOQ843751

Authors: Douglas N. Arnold, Marie E. Rognes 

Publication date: 15 January 2010

Published in: Calcolo (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The stability properties of simple element choices for the mixed formulation of the Laplacian are investigated numerically. The element choices studied use vector Lagrange elements, i.e., the space of continuous piecewise polynomial vector fields of degree at most r, for the vector variable, and the divergence of this space, which consists of discontinuous piecewise polynomials of one degree lower, for the scalar variable. For polynomial degrees r equal 2 or 3, this pair of spaces was found to be stable for all mesh families tested. In particular, it is stable on diagonal mesh families, in contrast to its behaviour for the Stokes equations. For degree r equal 1, stability holds for some meshes, but not for others. Additionally, convergence was observed precisely for the methods that were observed to be stable. However, it seems that optimal order L2 estimates for the vector variable, known to hold for r>3, do not hold for lower degrees.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0907.3438

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zbMATH Keywords

convergencenumerical examplesstabilityStokes equationsLaplace equationmixed finite elementsLagrange finite elements

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Laplace operator, Helmholtz equation (reduced wave equation), Poisson equation (35J05) Boundary value problems for second-order elliptic equations (35J25) 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)

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Uses Software

• SLEPc
• DOLFIN
• FEniCS

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