English

Sobolev stability of the $L^2$-projection on hybrid meshes

Numerical Analysis 2026-07-02 v1

Abstract

We establish LpL^p- and W1,pW^{1,p}-stability of the L2L^2-projection onto mapped Lagrange finite elements on hybrid meshes consisting of triangles and convex quadrilaterals arising from adaptive mesh refinement. If KK is the (tensor product) degree of polynomials of the discretisation, then we show, in particular, W1,2W^{1,2}-stability for all K2K\geq 2 for the Q-RG and Q-RB refinements. This extends results by Ali, Funken, and Schmidt (2022) which hold for the range 2K92 \leq K \leq 9 for initial meshes consisting of parallelograms. Our proof relies on an extension of the technique by Diening, Storn and Tscherpel (2021) to general convex quadrilaterals.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.2607.02362,
  title  = {Sobolev stability of the $L^2$-projection on hybrid meshes},
  author = {Lars Diening and Viktoria Lingert and Tabea Tscherpel},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.02362},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

24 pages, 5 figures, 2 tables