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A Contraction Property of an Adaptive Divergence-Conforming Discontinuous Galerkin Method for the Stokes Problem

Numerical Analysis 2018-07-24 v1

Abstract

We prove the contraction property for two successive loops of the adaptive algorithm for the Stokes problem reducing the error of the velocity. The problem is discretized by a divergence-conforming discontinuous Galerkin method which separates pressure and velocity approximation due to its cochain property. This allows us to establish the quasi-orthogonality property which is crucial for the proof of the contraction. We also establish the quasi-optimal complexity of the adaptive algorithm in terms of the degrees of freedom.

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@article{arxiv.1807.08623,
  title  = {A Contraction Property of an Adaptive Divergence-Conforming Discontinuous Galerkin Method for the Stokes Problem},
  author = {Natasha Sharma and Guido Kanschat},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1807.08623},
  year   = {2018}
}