Unified primal formulation-based a priori and a posteriori error analysis of mixed finite element methods

Unified primal formulation-based a priori and a posteriori error analysis of mixed finite element methods

We derive in this paper a unified framework for a priori and a posteriori error analysis of mixed finite element discretizations of second-order elliptic problems. It is based on the classical primal weak formulation, the postprocessing of the potential proposed in [T. Arbogast and Z. Chen, On the implementation of mixed methods as nonconforming methods for secondorder elliptic problems, Math. ...

A Priori and A Posteriori Pseudostress-velocity Mixed Finite Element Error Analysis for the Stokes Problem

The pseudostress-velocity formulation of the stationary Stokes problem allows a Raviart-Thomas mixed finite element formulation with quasi-optimal convergence and some superconvergent reconstruction of the velocity. This local postprocessing gives rise to some averaging a posteriori error estimator with explicit constants for reliable error control. Standard residual-based explicit a posteriori...

A new a priori error analysis of nonconforming and mixed finite element methods

Discontinuous Finite Element Methods for Interface Problems: Robust A Priori and A Posteriori Error Estimates

Abstract. For elliptic interface problems in two and three dimensions, this paper studies a priori and residual-based a posteriori error estimations for the Crouzeix–Raviart nonconforming and the discontinuous Galerkin finite element approximations. It is shown that both the a priori and the a posteriori error estimates are robust with respect to the diffusion coefficient, i.e., constants in th...

Discontinuous Galerkin Finite Element Methods for Interface Problems: A Priori and A Posteriori Error Estimations

Discontinuous Galerkin (DG) finite element methods were studied by many researchers for second-order elliptic partial differential equations, and a priori error estimates were established when the solution of the underlying problem is piecewise H3/2+ smooth with > 0. However, elliptic interface problems with intersecting interfaces do not possess such a smoothness. In this paper, we establish a...