Elliptic reconstruction and a posteriori error estimates for fully discrete linear parabolic problems
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- by Omar Lakkis and Charalambos Makridakis;
- Math. Comp. 75 (2006), 1627-1658
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0025-5718-06-01858-8
- Published electronically: May 26, 2006
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Abstract:
We derive a posteriori error estimates for fully discrete approximations to solutions of linear parabolic equations. The space discretization uses finite element spaces that are allowed to change in time. Our main tool is an appropriate adaptation of the elliptic reconstruction technique, introduced by Makridakis and Nochetto. We derive novel a posteriori estimates for the norms of $\operatorname {L}_\infty (0,T;\operatorname {L}_2(\Omega ))$ and the higher order spaces, $\operatorname {L}_\infty (0,T;\operatorname {H}^1(\Omega ))$ and $\operatorname {H}^1(0,T;\operatorname {L}_2(\Omega ))$, with optimal orders of convergence.References
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Bibliographic Information
- Omar Lakkis
- Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK-BN1 9RF, United Kingdom
- Email: O.Lakkis@sussex.ac.uk
- Charalambos Makridakis
- Affiliation: Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Crete, GR-71409 Heraklion, Greece; and Institute for Applied and Computational Mathematics, Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas, Vasilika Vouton P.O. Box 1527, GR-71110 Heraklion, Greece
- MR Author ID: 289627
- Email: makr@tem.uoc.gr
- Received by editor(s): December 26, 2003
- Received by editor(s) in revised form: May 23, 2005
- Published electronically: May 26, 2006
- Additional Notes: The first author was supported by the E.U. RTN Hyke HPRN-CT-2002-00282 and the EU’s MCWave Marie Curie Fellowship HPMD-CT-2001-00121 during the preparation of this work at FORTH in Heraklion of Crete, Greece.
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The copyright for this article reverts to public domain 28 years after publication. - Journal: Math. Comp. 75 (2006), 1627-1658
- MSC (2000): Primary 65N30
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0025-5718-06-01858-8
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