Simple a posteriori error estimators for the h-version of the boundary element method

  • Authors:
  • S. Ferraz-Leite;D. Praetorius

  • Affiliations:
  • Vienna University of Technology, Institute for Analysis and Scientific Computing, Wiedner Hauptstraße 8-10, 1040, Vienna, Austria;Vienna University of Technology, Institute for Analysis and Scientific Computing, Wiedner Hauptstraße 8-10, 1040, Vienna, Austria

  • Venue:
  • Computing
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

The h-h/2-strategy is one well-known technique for the a posteriori error estimation for Galerkin discretizations of energy minimization problems. One considers to estimate the error , where is a Galerkin solution with respect to a mesh and is a Galerkin solution with respect to the mesh obtained from a uniform refinement of . This error estimator is always efficient and observed to be also reliable in practice. However, for boundary element methods, the energy norm is non-local and thus the error estimator η does not provide information for a local mesh-refinement. We consider Symm’s integral equation of the first kind, where the energy space is the negative-order Sobolev space . Recent localization techniques allow to replace the energy norm in this case by some weighted L 2-norm. Then, this very basic error estimation strategy is also applicable to steer an h-adaptive algorithm. Numerical experiments in 2D and 3D show that the proposed method works well in practice. A short conclusion is concerned with other integral equations, e.g., the hypersingular case with energy space , respectively, or a transmission problem.