High-Order AFEM for the Laplace–Beltrami Operator: Convergence Rates

We present a new AFEM for the Laplace–Beltrami operator with arbitrary polynomial degree on parametric surfaces, which are globally W1∞ and piecewise in a suitable Besov class embedded in C1,α with α∈(0,1]. The idea is to have the surface sufficiently well resolved in W∞1 relative to the current res...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Bonito, Andrea, Cascón Barbero, José Manuel, Mekchay, Khamron, Morin, Pedro, Nochetto, Ricardo H.
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2016
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Salamanca (USAL)
Repositorio:GREDOS. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Salamanca
OAI Identifier:oai:gredos.usal.es:10366/138169
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10366/138169
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Numerical analysis
Laplace–Beltrami operator
Parametric surfaces
Adaptive Finite Element methods
Convergence rates
A posteriori error estimates
Higher order
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Sumario:We present a new AFEM for the Laplace–Beltrami operator with arbitrary polynomial degree on parametric surfaces, which are globally W1∞ and piecewise in a suitable Besov class embedded in C1,α with α∈(0,1]. The idea is to have the surface sufficiently well resolved in W∞1 relative to the current resolution of the PDE in H1. This gives rise to a conditional contraction property of the PDE module. We present a suitable approximation class and discuss its relation to Besov regularity of the surface, solution, and forcing. We prove optimal convergence rates for AFEM which are dictated by the worst decay rate of the surface error in W∞1 and PDE error in H1.