Dr. Barrios-Faundez, Tomas

We develop an a posteriori error analysis for Helmholtz problem using the local discontinuous Galerkin (LDG for short) approach. For the sake of completeness, we give a description of the main a priori results of this method. Indeed, under some assumptions on regularity of the solution of an adjoint problem, we prove that: (a) the corresponding indefinite discrete scheme is well posed; (b) the approach is convergent, with the expected convergence rates as long as the meshsize h is small enough. We give precise information on how small h has to be in term soft he size of the wave number and its distance to the set of eigenvalues for the same boundary value problem for the Laplacian. After that, we present a reliable and efficient a posteriori error estimator with detailed information on the dependence of the constants on the wave number. We finish presenting extensive numerical experiments which illustrate the theoretical results proven in this paper and suggest that stability and convergence may occur under less restrictive assumptions than those taken in the present work.

We develop an a posteriori error analysis of residual type of a stabilized mixed finite element method for Darcy flow. The stabilized formulation is obtained by adding to the standard dual-mixed approach suitable residual type terms arising from Darcy’s law and the mass conservation equation. We derive sufficient conditions on the stabilization parameters that guarantee that the augmented variational formulation and the corresponding Galerkin scheme are well-posed. Then, we obtain a simple a posteriori error estimator and prove that it is reliable and locally efficient. Finally, we provide several numerical experiments that illustrate the theoretical results and support the use of the corresponding adaptive algorithm in practice

We consider the augmented mixed finite element method introduced in [7] for the equations of plane linear elasticity with mixed boundary conditions. We develop an a posteriori error analysis based on the Ritz projection of the error and obtain an a posteriori error estimator that is reliable and efficient, but that involves a non-local term. Then, introducing an auxiliary function, we derive fully local reliable a posteriori error estimates that are locally efficient up to the elements that touch the Neumann boundary. We provide numerical experiments that illustrate the performance of the corresponding adaptive algorithm and support its use in practice.

This work presents new stabilised finite element methods for a bending moments formulation of the Reissner-Mindlin plate model. The introduction of the bending moment as an extra unknown leads to a new weak formulation, where the symmetry of this variable is imposed strongly in the space. This weak problem is proved to be well-posed, and stabilised Galerkin schemes for its discretisation are presented and analysed. The finite element methods are such that the bending moment tensor is sought in a finite element space constituted of piecewise linear continuos and symmetric tensors. Optimal error estimates are proved, and these findings are illustrated by representative numerical experiments.

In this article, we first discuss the well posedness of a modified LDG scheme of Stokes problem, considering a velocity-pseudostress formulation. The difficulty here relies on the fact that the application of classical Babuška-Brezzi theory is not easy, so we proceed in a nonstandard way. For uniqueness, we apply a discrete version of Fredholm's alternative theorem, while the a priori error analysis is done introducing suitable projections of exact solution. As a result, we prove that the method is convergent, and under suitable regularity assumptions on the exact solution, the optimal rate of convergence is guaranteed. Next, we explore two stabilizations to the previous scheme, by adding least squares type terms. For these cases, well posedness and the a priori error estimates are proved by the application of standard theory. We end this work with some numerical experiments considering our third scheme, whose results are in agreement with the theoretical properties we deduce.

We consider an augmented mixed finite element method for incompressible fluid flows and develop a simple a posteriori error analysis. We obtain an a posteriori error estimator that is reliable and locally efficient. We provide numerical experiments that illustrate the performance of the corresponding adaptive algorithm and support its use in practice.

In this work, we focus our attention in the Stokes flow with nonhomogeneous source terms, formulated in dual mixed form. For the sake of completeness, we begin recalling the corresponding well-posedness at continuous and discrete levels. After that, and with the help of a kind of a quasi-Helmholtz decomposition of functions in H (div), we develop a residual type a posteriori error analysis, deducing an estimator that is reliable and locally efficient. Finally, we provide numerical experiments, which confirm our theoretical results on the a posteriori error estimator and illustrate the performance of the corresponding adaptive algorithm, supporting its use in practice.

In this paper, we discuss the well-posedness of a mixed discontinuous Galerkin (DG) scheme for the Poisson and Stokes problems in 2D, considering only piecewise Lagrangian finite elements. The complication here lies in the fact that the classical Babuška-Brezzi theory is difficult to verify for low-order finite elements, so we proceed in a non-standard way. First, we prove uniqueness, and then we apply a discrete version of Fredholm's alternative theorem to ensure existence. The a-priori error analysis is done by introducing suitable projections of the exact solution. As a result, we prove that the method is convergent, and, under standard additional regularity assumptions on the exact solution, the optimal rate of convergence of the method is guaranteed.

In this paper, we describe an a posteriori error analysis for a conforming dual mixed scheme of the Poisson problem with non homogeneous Dirichlet boundary condition. As a result, we obtain an a posteriori error estimator, which is proven to be reliable and locally efficient with respect to the usual norm on H(div;Omega) x L^2(Omega). We remark that the analysis relies on the standard Ritz projection of the error, and take into account a kind of a quasi-Helmholtz decomposition of functions in H(div;Omega), which we have established in this work. Finally, we present one numerical example that validates the well behavior of our estimator, being able to identify the numerical singularities when they exist.

In this article, we give a description of a technique to develop an a posteriori error estimator for the dual mixed methods, when applied to elliptic partial differential equations with non homogeneous mixed boundary conditions. The approach considers conforming finite elements for the discrete scheme, and a quasi-Helmholtz decomposition result to obtain a residual a posteriori error estimator. After applying first a homogenization technique (for the Neumann boundary condition), we derive an a posteriori error estimator, which looks to be expensive to compute. This motivates the derivation of another a posteriori error estimator, that is fully computable. As a consequence, we establish the equivalence between the latter a posteriori error estimator and the natural norm of the error, that is, we prove the reliability and local efficiency of the aforementioned estimator. Finally, we report numerical examples showing the good properties of the estimator, in agreement with the theoretical results of this work.