The reliability of local error estimators for convection-diffusion equations

DOI10.1093/IMANUM/21.1.107MaRDI QIDQ2713120zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors David Kay, David Silvester

Publication date 25 February 2002

Published in IMA Journal of Numerical Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:8b895c97-a882-46af-9397-9cf469721cc6

zbMATH Keywords

convection-diffusion equationserror estimatesPoisson problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Boundary value problems for second-order elliptic equations (35J25) Error bounds for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N15)

Review text

The authors assess the reliability of a simple a posteriori error estimator for steady-state convection-diffusion equations in convection dominated cases. The estimator is computed by solving a local Poisson problem with Neumann boundary conditions. It gives global upper and local lower bounds on the error measured. However, the errors may be overestimated locally within boundary layers if these are not resolved by the mesh, that is, when the local mesh Péclet number is significantly greater than unity. The implications of this overestimation are discussed in a practical context.

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