@Article{AAMM-8-517, author = {Wang , Jianye and Ma , Rui}, title = {Unified a Priori Error Estimate and a Posteriori Error Estimate of CIP-FEM for Elliptic Equations}, journal = {Advances in Applied Mathematics and Mechanics}, year = {2018}, volume = {8}, number = {4}, pages = {517--535}, abstract = {

This paper is devoted to a unified a priori and a posteriori error analysis of CIP-FEM (continuous interior penalty finite element method) for second-order elliptic problems. Compared with the classic a priori error analysis in literature, our technique can easily apply for any type regularity assumption on the exact solution, especially for the case of lower $H^{1+s}$ weak regularity under consideration, where 0 ≤$s$≤ 1/2. Because of the penalty term used in the CIP-FEM, Galerkin orthogonality is lost and Céa Lemma for conforming finite element methods can not be applied immediately when 0≤$s$≤1/2. To overcome this difficulty, our main idea is introducing an auxiliary $C^1$ finite element space in the analysis of the penalty term. The same tool is also utilized in the explicit a posteriori error analysis of CIP-FEM.

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