The saturation assumption yields optimal convergence of two-level adaptive BEM

Dirk Praetorius, Michele Ruggeri*, Ernst P. Stephan

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Abstract

We consider the convergence of adaptive BEM for weakly-singular and hypersingular integral equations associated with the Laplacian and the Helmholtz operator in 2D and 3D. The local mesh-refinement is driven by some two-level error estimator. We show that the adaptive algorithm drives the underlying error estimates to zero. Moreover, we prove that the saturation assumption already implies linear convergence of the error with optimal algebraic rates.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)105-124
Number of pages20
JournalApplied Numerical Mathematics
Volume152
Early online date20 Feb 2020
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 30 Jun 2020

Funding

The author DP acknowledges the support of the Austria Science Fund ( FWF ) through the research project Optimal adaptivity for BEM and FEM-BEM coupling (grant P27005 ) and the special research program (SFB) Taming complexity in partial differential systems (grant F65 ). The author DP acknowledges the support of the Austria Science Fund (FWF) through the research project Optimal adaptivity for BEM and FEM-BEM coupling (grant P27005) and the special research program (SFB) Taming complexity in partial differential systems (grant F65).

Keywords

  • adaptive methods
  • boundary element method
  • convergence
  • optimality
  • two-level error estimation

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