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Optimal Superconvergence Analysis for the Crouzeix-Raviart and the Morley elements

Numerical Analysis 2019-10-23 v2 Numerical Analysis

Abstract

In this paper, an improved superconvergence analysis is presented for both the Crouzeix-Raviart element and the Morley element. The main idea of the analysis is to employ a discrete Helmholtz decomposition of the difference between the canonical interpolation and the finite element solution for the first order mixed Raviart--Thomas element and the mixed Hellan--Herrmann--Johnson element, respectively. This, in particular, allows for proving a full one order superconvergence result for these two mixed finite elements. Finally, a full one order superconvergence result of both the Crouzeix-Raviart element and the Morley element follows from their special relations with the first order mixed Raviart--Thomas element and the mixed Hellan--Herrmann--Johnson element respectively. Those superconvergence results are also extended to mildly-structured meshes.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1808.09810,
  title  = {Optimal Superconvergence Analysis for the Crouzeix-Raviart and the Morley elements},
  author = {Jun Hu and Limin Ma and Rui Ma},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1808.09810},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

20 pages, 3 figures, 3 tables. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1802.01896

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