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A posteriori error estimates for finite element discretizations of the heat equation

Rüdiger Verfürth
- 01 Dec 2003 - 
- Vol. 40, Iss: 3, pp 195-212
TLDR
For these discretizations of the heat equation by A-stable θ-schemes in time and conforming finite elements in space, residual a posteriori error indicators are derived that yield upper bounds on the error and lower bounds that are global in space and time and local in time.
Abstract
We consider discretizations of the heat equation by A-stable θ-schemes in time and conforming finite elements in space. For these discretizations we derive residual a posteriori error indicators. The indicators yield upper bounds on the error which are global in space and time and yield lower bounds that are global in space and local in time. The ratio between upper and lower bounds is uniformly bounded in time and does not depend on any step-size in space or time. Moreover, there is no restriction on the relation between the step-sizes in space and time.

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A Review of a Posteriori Error Estimation and Adaptive Mesh-Refinement Techniques

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Mathematical Analysis and Numerical Methods for Science and Technology

TL;DR: These six volumes as mentioned in this paper compile the mathematical knowledge required by researchers in mechanics, physics, engineering, chemistry and other branches of application of mathematics for the theoretical and numerical resolution of physical models on computers.

Mathematical analysis and numerical methods for science and technology

Abstract: These six volumes - the result of a ten year collaboration between the authors, two of France's leading scientists and both distinguished international figures - compile the mathematical knowledge required by researchers in mechanics, physics, engineering, chemistry and other branches of application of mathematics for the theoretical and numerical resolution of physical models on computers. Since the publication in 1924 of the Methoden der mathematischen Physik by Courant and Hilbert, there has been no other comprehensive and up-to-date publication presenting the mathematical tools needed in applications of mathematics in directly implementable form. The advent of large computers has in the meantime revolutionised methods of computation and made this gap in the literature intolerable: the objective of the present work is to fill just this gap. Many phenomena in physical mathematics may be modeled by a system of partial differential equations in distributed systems: a model here means a set of equations, which together with given boundary data and, if the phenomenon is evolving in time, initial data, defines the system. The advent of high-speed computers has made it possible for the first time to caluclate values from models accurately and rapidly. Researchers and engineers thus have a crucial means of using numerical results to modify and adapt arguments and experiments along the way. Every fact of technical and industrial activity has been affected by these developments. Modeling by distributed systems now also supports work in many areas of physics (plasmas, new materials, astrophysics, geophysics), chemistry and mechanics and is finding increasing use in the life sciences. Volumes 5 and 6 cover problems of Transport and Evolution.
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