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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…

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We derive an anisotropic a posteriori error estimate for the adaptive conforming Virtual Element approximation of a paradigmatic two-dimensional elliptic problem. In particular, we introduce a quasi-interpolant operator and exploit its…

We present a posteriori error analysis in the supremum norm for the symmetric interior penalty discontinuous Galerkin method for the elliptic obstacle problem. We construct discrete barrier functions based on appropriate corrections of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-08-27 Blanca Ayuso de Dios , Thirupathi Gudi , Kamana Porwal

This paper introduces an explicit residual-based a posteriori error analysis for the symmetric mixed finite element method in linear elasticity after Arnold-Winther with pointwise symmetric and H(div)-conforming stress approximation.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-05-25 C. Carstensen , D. Gallistl , J. Gedicke

A general adaptive refinement strategy for solving linear elliptic partial differential equation with random data is proposed and analysed herein. The adaptive strategy extends the a posteriori error estimation framework introduced by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-08-23 Alex Bespalov , David Silvester , Feng Xu

This paper introduces a novel a posteriori error estimation framework for the enriched Galerkin (EG) finite element method applied to linear parabolic equations. While the EG method has been recognized for its local conservation property…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-29 Hyun-Geun Shin , Yi-Yung Yang , Sanghyun Lee

We present an a posteriori error analysis for the mixed virtual element method (mixed VEM) applied to second order elliptic equations in divergence form with mixed boundary conditions. The resulting error estimator is of residual-type. It…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-04-24 Andrea Cangiani , Mauricio Munar

We derive globally reliable a posteriori error estimators for a PDE-constrained optimization problem involving linear models in fluid dynamics as state equation; control constraints are also considered. The corresponding local error…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-08-03 Alejandro Allendes , Enrique Otarola , Richard Rankin

For the pure biharmonic equation and a biharmonic singular perturbation problem, a residual-based error estimator is introduced which applies to many existing nonconforming finite elements. The error estimator involves the local…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-18 Dietmar Gallistl , Shudan Tian

For the model problem of the heat equation discretized by an implicit Euler method in time and a conforming finite element method in space, we prove the efficiency of a posteriori error estimators with respect to the energy norm of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-12 Iain Smears

We consider Poisson's equation with a finite number of weighted Dirac masses as a source term, together with its discretization by means of conforming finite elements. For the error in fractional Sobolev spaces, we propose residual-type a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-07-30 Fernando D. Gaspoz , Pedro Morin , Andreas Veeser

We propose new a posteriori error estimators for non-conforming finite element discretizations of second-order elliptic PDE problems. These estimators are based on novel reformulations of the standard Prager-Synge identity, and enable to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-22 T. Chaumont-Frelet

This paper proposes and analyzes an a posteriori error estimator for the finite element multi-scale discretization approximation of the Steklov eigenvalue problem. Based on the a posteriori error estimates, an adaptive algorithm of shifted…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-01-08 Hai Bi , Hao Li , Yidu Yang

We consider finite element discretizations of Maxwell's equations coupled with a non-local hydrodynamic Drude model that accurately accounts for electron motions in metallic nanostructures. Specifically, we focus on a posteriori error…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-08-04 T. Chaumont-Frelet , S. Lanteri , P. Vega

In this paper, we propose a novel adaptive finite element method for an elliptic equation with line Dirac delta functions as a source term. We first study the well-posedness and global regularity of the solution in the whole domain. Instead…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-07-12 Huihui Cao , Hengguang Li , Nianyu Yi , Peimeng Yin

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

Residual-based a~posteriori error estimators are derived for the modified Morley FEM, proposed by Wang, Xu, Hu [J. Comput. Math, 24(2), 2006], for the singularly perturbed biharmonic equation and the nonlinear von K\'arm\'an equations. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-17 A. K. Dond , D. Gallistl , S. Nayak , M. Schedensack

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

We develop a novel a posteriori error estimator for the $L^2$ error committed by the finite element discretization of the solution of the fractional Laplacian. Our a posteriori error estimator takes advantage of the semi-discretization…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-03-14 Raphaël Bulle , Olga Barrera , Stéphane P. A. Bordas , Franz Chouly , Jack S. Hale

We derive a posteriori error estimators for an optimal control problem governed by a convection-reaction-diffusion equation; control constraints are also considered. We consider a family of low-order stabilized finite element methods to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-04-24 Alejandro Allendes , Enrique Otarola , Richard Rankin