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This work develops user-friendly a posteriori error estimates of finite element methods, based on smoothers of linear iterative solvers. The proposed method employs simple smoothers, such as Jacobi or Gauss-Seidel iteration, on an auxiliary…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-24 Yuwen Li , Han Shui

A class of linear parabolic equations are considered. We give a posteriori error estimates in the maximum norm for a method that comprises extrapolation applied to the backward Euler method in time and finite element discretisations in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-08-18 Torsten Linß , Goran Radojev

In this paper we present a simple method of deriving a posteriori error equalities and estimates for linear elliptic and parabolic partial differential equations. The error is measured in a combined norm taking into account both the primal…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-11-16 Immanuel Anjam , Dirk Pauly

We consider mixed finite element approximation of a singularly perturbed fourth-order elliptic problem with two different boundary conditions, and present a new measure of the error, whose components are balanced with respect to the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-09-16 Shaohong Du , Runchang Lin , Zhimin Zhang

In this article, we develop a posteriori error analysis of a nonconforming finite element method for a linear quadratic elliptic distributed optimal control problem with two different set of constraints, namely (i) integral state constraint…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-08-09 Kamana Porwal , Pratibha Shakya

In this article, we present an overview of different a posteriori error analysis and postprocessing methods proposed in the context of nonlinear eigenvalue problems, e.g. arising inelectronic structure calculations for the calculation of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-16 Geneviève Dusson , Yvon Maday

We establish rigorous \emph{a posteriori} error bounds for a space-time finite element method of arbitrary order discretising linear wave problems in second order formulation. The method combines standard finite elements in space and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-24 Zhaonan Dong , Emmanuil H. Georgoulis , Lorenzo Mascotto , Zuodong Wang

Error control by means of a posteriori error estimators or indica-tors and adaptive discretizations, such as adaptive mesh refinement, have emerged in the late seventies. Since then, numerous theoretical developments and improvements have…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-11 Roland Becker , Stéphane P. A. Bordas , Franz Chouly , Pascal Omnes

The Inverse Problem for the estimation of a point-wise approximation error occurring at the discretization and solving of the system of partial differential equations is addressed. The set of the differences between the numerical solutions…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-01-05 Aleksey Alekseev , Alexander Bondarev

While many methods exist to discretize nonlinear time-dependent partial differential equations (PDEs), the rigorous estimation and adaptive control of their discretization errors remains challenging. In this paper, we present a methodology…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-06-15 Xunxun Wu , Kristoffer van der Zee , Gorkem Simsek , Harald Van Brummelen

In this paper we present and analyze a weighted residual a posteriori error estimate for an optimal control problem. The problem involves a nondifferentiable cost functional, a state equation with an integral fractional Laplacian, and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-09-18 Fangyuan Wang , Qiming Wang , Zhaojie Zhou

We propose and analyse residual-based a posteriori error estimates for the virtual element discretisation applied to the thin plate vibration problem in both two and three dimensions. Our approach involves a conforming $C^1$ discrete…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-10 Franco Dassi , Andres E. Rubiano , Iván Velásquez

This article provides a brief introduction to the a posteriori error analysis of parabolic partial differential equations, with an emphasis on challenges distinct from those of steady-state problems. Using the heat equation as a model…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-02 Iain Smears

We devise a posteriori error estimators for quasi-optimal nonconforming finite element methods approximating symmetric elliptic problems of second and fourth order. These estimators are defined for all source terms that are admissible to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-05 Christian Kreuzer , Matthias Rott , Andreas Veeser , Pietro Zanotti

In this paper, we develop a new residual-based pointwise a posteriori error estimator of the quadratic finite element method for the Signorini problem. The supremum norm a posteriori error estimates enable us to locate the singularities…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-05 Rohit Khandelwal , Kamana Porwal , Tanvi Wadhawan

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

We study a posteriori error analysis of linear-quadratic boundary control problems under bilateral box constraints on the control which acts through a Neumann type boundary condition. We adopt the hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin method…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-21 Haitao Leng , Yanping Chen

Second-order partial differential equations in non-divergence form are considered. Equations of this kind typically arise as subproblems for the solution of Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equations in the context of stochastic optimal control, or…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-08-13 Jan Blechschmidt , Roland Herzog , Max Winkler

We derive optimal and asymptotically exact a posteriori error estimates for the approximation of the Laplace eigenvalue problem. To do so, we combine two results from the literature. First, we use the hypercircle techniques developed for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-04-08 Philip L. Lederer

In this paper, we study a modified residual-based a posteriori error estimator for the nonconforming linear finite element approximation to the interface problem. The reliability of the estimator is analyzed by a new and direct approach…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-11-23 Zhiqiang Cai , Cuiyu He , Shun Zhang