A posteriori goal-oriented bounds for the Poisson problem using potential and equilibrated flux reconstructions: Application to the hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin method

We present a general framework to compute upper and lower bounds for linear-functional outputs of the exact solutions of the Poisson equation based on reconstructions of the field variable and flux for both the primal and adjoint problems. The method is devised from a generalization of the complemen...

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Authors: Parés Mariné, Núria|||0000-0002-2914-9904, Nguyen, Ngoc-Cuong, Díez, Pedro|||0000-0001-6464-6407, Peraire Guitart, Jaume
Format: article
Publication Date:2021
Country:España
Institution:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repository:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Language:English
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/359138
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/359138
https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cma.2021.114088
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Applied mathematics
Exact/guaranteed/strict bounds for quantities of interest
Output bounds
Goal-oriented error estimation
Adaptivity
Potential and equilibrated flux reconstructions
Hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin method (HDG)
Matemàtica aplicada
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Matemàtiques i estadística
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Summary:We present a general framework to compute upper and lower bounds for linear-functional outputs of the exact solutions of the Poisson equation based on reconstructions of the field variable and flux for both the primal and adjoint problems. The method is devised from a generalization of the complementary energy principle and the duality theory. Using duality theory, the computation of bounds is reduced to finding independent potential and equilibrated flux reconstructions. A generalization of this result is also introduced allowing to derive alternative guaranteed bounds from nearly-arbitrary flux reconstructions (only zero-order equilibration is required). This approach is applicable to any numerical method used to compute the solution. In this work, the proposed approach is applied to derive bounds for the hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin (HDG) method. An attractive feature of the proposed approach is that superconvergence on the bound gap is achieved, yielding accurate bounds even for very coarse meshes. Numerical experiments are presented to illustrate the performance and convergence of the bounds for the HDG method in both uniform and adaptive mesh refinements.