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A general a posteriori error analysis applies to five lowest-order finite element methods for two fourth-order semi-linear problems with trilinear non-linearity and a general source. A quasi-optimal smoother extends the source term to the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-09-18 Carsten Carstensen , Benedikt Gräßle , Neela Nataraj

The paper is concerned with functional type a posteriori estimates for the initial boundary value problem for a parabolic partial differential equation with an obstacle. We deduce a guaranteed and computable bound of the distance between…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-09-30 Darya E. Apushkinskaya , Sergey I. Repin

This paper develops and discusses a residual-based a posteriori error estimator for parabolic surface partial differential equations on closed stationary surfaces. The full discretization uses the surface finite element method in space and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-31 Balázs Kovács , Michael Lantelme

We consider finite element solutions to optimization problems, where the state depends on the possibly constrained control through a linear partial differential equation. Basing upon a reduced and rescaled optimality system, we derive a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-18 Fernando Gaspoz , Christian Kreuzer , Andreas Veeser , Winnifried Wollner

This work studies a posteriori error estimates and their use for time-dependent acoustic scattering problems, formulated as a time-dependent boundary integral equation based on a single-layer ansatz. The integral equation is discretized by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-05 Théophile Chaumont-Frelet , Heiko Gimperlein , Ignacio Labarca-Figueroa , Jörg Nick

We develop and analyse residual-based a posteriori error estimates for the virtual element discretisation of a nonlinear stress-assisted diffusion problem in two and three dimensions. The model problem involves a two-way coupling between…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-26 Franco Dassi , Rekha Khot , Andres E. Rubiano , Ricardo Ruiz-Baier

We consider a mixed variational formulation recently proposed for the coupling of the Brinkman--Forchheimer and Darcy equations and develop the first reliable and efficient residual-based a posteriori error estimator for the 2D version of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-02 Sergio Caucao , Paulo Zúñiga

A posteriori estimates give bounds on the error between the unknown solution of a partial differential equation and its numerical approximation. We present here the methodology based on H1-conforming potential and H(div)-conforming…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-30 Martin Vohralík , Soleiman Yousef

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-11-04 Petr Harasim , Jan Valdman

The a posteriori error estimates are studied for a class of nonlinear stead-state Poisson-Nernst-Planck equations, which are a coupled system consisting of the Nernst-Planck equation and the Poisson equation. Both the global upper bounds…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-01-10 Ying Yang , Ruigang Shen , Mingjuan Fang , Shi Shu

This work is focused on the application of functional-type a posteriori error estimates and corresponding indicators to a class of time-dependent problems. We consider the algorithmic part of their derivation and implementation and also…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2017-05-25 Bärbel Holm , Svetlana Matculevich

In two dimensions, we propose and analyze an a posteriori error estimator for finite element approximations of the stationary Navier Stokes equations with singular sources on Lipschitz, but not necessarily convex, polygonal domains. Under a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-14 Alejandro Allendes , Enrique Otarola , Abner J. Salgado

In this article, we derive \textit{a posteriori} error estimates for the Dirichlet boundary control problem governed by Stokes equation. An energy-based method has been deployed to solve the Dirichlet boundary control problem. We employ an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-30 Thirupathi Gudi , Ramesh Chandra Sau

We introduce novel a posteriori error indicators for a nonlinear least-squares solver for smooth solutions of the Monge--Amp\`ere equation on convex polygonal domains in $\mathbb{R}^2$. At each iteration, our iterative scheme decouples the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-09 Alexandre Caboussat , Anna Peruso , Marco Picasso

For elliptic interface problems, this paper studies residual-based a posteriori error estimations for various finite element approximations. For the conforming and the Raviart-Thomas mixed elements in two-dimension and for the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-03-04 Zhiqiang Cai , Cuiyu He , Shun Zhang

In this work, we propose and analyze a pointwise a posteriori error estimator for simple eigenvalues of elliptic eigenvalue problems with adaptive finite element methods (AFEMs). We prove the reliability and efficiency of the residual-type…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-11 Zhenglei Li , Qigang Liang , Xuejun Xu

In this article we develop function-based a posteriori error estimators for the solution of linear second order elliptic problems considering hierarchical spline spaces for the Galerkin discretization. We prove a global upper bound for the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-11-24 Annalisa Buffa , Eduardo M. Garau

The paper deals with finite element approximations of elliptic Dirichlet boundary control problems posed on two-dimensional polygonal domains. Error estimates are derived for the approximation of the control and the state variables. Special…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-01-28 Thomas Apel , Mariano Mateos , Johannes Pfefferer , Arnd Rösch

In this paper, on the basis of a (Fenchel) duality theory on the continuous level, we derive an $\textit{a posteriori}$ error identity for arbitrary conforming approximations of a primal formulation and a dual formulation of variational…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-25 Harbir Antil , Sören Bartels , Alex Kaltenbach , Rohit Khandelwal

A posteriori estimates for mixed finite element discretizations of the Navier-Stokes equations are derived. We show that the task of estimating the error in the evolutionary Navier-Stokes equations can be reduced to the estimation of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-12-23 Javier de Frutos , Bosco García-Archilla , Julia Novo