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Optimal adaptivity for non-symmetric FEM/BEM coupling

Numerical Analysis 2017-10-18 v1

Abstract

We develop a framework which allows us to prove the essential general quasi-orthogonality for the non-symmetric Johnson-Nedelec finite element/boundary element coupling. General quasi-orthogonality was first proposed in [Axioms of Adaptivity, 2014] as a necessary ingredient of optimality proofs and is the major difficulty on the way to prove rate optimal convergence of adaptive algorithms for many strongly non-symmetric problems. The proof exploits a new connection between the general quasi-orthogonality and LU-factorization of infinite matrices. We then derive that a standard adaptive algorithm for the Johnson-Nedelec coupling converges with optimal rates. The developed techniques are fairly general and can most likely be applied to other problems like Stokes equation.

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@article{arxiv.1710.06082,
  title  = {Optimal adaptivity for non-symmetric FEM/BEM coupling},
  author = {Michael Feischl},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1710.06082},
  year   = {2017}
}
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