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A posteriori error control for fourth-order semilinear problems with quadratic nonlinearity

Numerical Analysis 2023-09-18 v1 Numerical Analysis

Abstract

A general a posteriori error analysis applies to five lowest-order finite element methods for two fourth-order semi-linear problems with trilinear non-linearity and a general source. A quasi-optimal smoother extends the source term to the discrete trial space, and more importantly, modifies the trilinear term in the stream-function vorticity formulation of the incompressible 2D Navier-Stokes and the von K\'{a}rm\'{a}n equations. This enables the first efficient and reliable a posteriori error estimates for the 2D Navier-Stokes equations in the stream-function vorticity formulation for Morley, two discontinuous Galerkin, C0C^0 interior penalty, and WOPSIP discretizations with piecewise quadratic polynomials.

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@article{arxiv.2309.08427,
  title  = {A posteriori error control for fourth-order semilinear problems with quadratic nonlinearity},
  author = {Carsten Carstensen and Benedikt Gräßle and Neela Nataraj},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.08427},
  year   = {2023}
}
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