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Mesh dependent stability and condition number estimates for finite element approximations of parabolic problems
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Math. Comp. 83 (2014), 37-64 Request permission

Abstract:

In this paper, we discuss the effects of spatial simplicial meshes on the stability and the conditioning of fully discrete approximations of a parabolic equation using a general finite element discretization in space with explicit or implicit marching in time. Based on the new mesh dependent bounds on extreme eigenvalues of general finite element systems defined for simplicial meshes, we derive a new time step size condition for the explicit time integration schemes presented, which provides more precise dependence not only on mesh size but also on mesh shape. For the implicit time integration schemes, some explicit mesh-dependent estimates of the spectral condition number of the resulting linear systems are also established. Our results provide guidance to the studies of numerical stability for parabolic problems when using spatially unstructured adaptive and/or possibly anisotropic meshes.
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  • Liyong Zhu
  • Affiliation: LMIB and School of Mathematics and Systems Sciences, Beihang University, 100191, Beijing, People’s Republic of China
  • Email: liyongzhu@buaa.edu.cn
  • Qiang Du
  • Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802
  • MR Author ID: 191080
  • Email: qdu@math.psu.edu
  • Received by editor(s): January 5, 2011
  • Received by editor(s) in revised form: November 16, 2011, and April 15, 2012
  • Published electronically: May 2, 2013
  • Additional Notes: The first author is supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos.11001007, 91130019) and Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education of China (No. 20101102120031) and ISTCP of China (No. 2010DFR00700).
    The second author is supported in part by NSF DMS-1016073. Part of this work was completed during this author’s visit to the Beijing Computational Science Research Center, China.
  • © Copyright 2013 American Mathematical Society
  • Journal: Math. Comp. 83 (2014), 37-64
  • MSC (2010): Primary 65N30, 65F10
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0025-5718-2013-02703-2
  • MathSciNet review: 3120581