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Adaptive BEM with optimal convergence rates for the Helmholtz equation

Numerical Analysis 2019-03-21 v3

Abstract

We analyze an adaptive boundary element method for the weakly-singular and hypersingular integral equations for the 2D and 3D Helmholtz problem. The proposed adaptive algorithm is steered by a residual error estimator and does not rely on any a priori information that the underlying meshes are sufficiently fine. We prove convergence of the error estimator with optimal algebraic rates, independently of the (coarse) initial mesh. As a technical contribution, we prove certain local inverse-type estimates for the boundary integral operators associated with the Helmholtz equation.

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@article{arxiv.1807.11802,
  title  = {Adaptive BEM with optimal convergence rates for the Helmholtz equation},
  author = {Alex Bespalov and Timo Betcke and Alexander Haberl and Dirk Praetorius},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1807.11802},
  year   = {2019}
}
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