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Verification of functional a posteriori error estimates for obstacle problem in 1D

Numerical Analysis 2016-11-04 v3

Abstract

We verify functional a posteriori error estimate for obstacle problem proposed by Repin. Simplification into 1D allows for the construction of a nonlinear benchmark for which an exact solution of the obstacle problem can be derived. Quality of a numerical approximation obtained by the finite element method is compared with the exact solution and the error of approximation is bounded from above by a majorant error estimate. The sharpness of the majorant error estimate is discussed.

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@article{arxiv.1301.5923,
  title  = {Verification of functional a posteriori error estimates for obstacle problem in 1D},
  author = {Petr Harasim and Jan Valdman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1301.5923},
  year   = {2016}
}
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