Adaptivity and a Posteriori Error Control for Bifurcation Problems I: The Bratu Problem

Adaptivity and a Posteriori Error Control for Bifurcation Problems I: The Bratu Problem

Year:    2010

Communications in Computational Physics, Vol. 8 (2010), Iss. 4 : pp. 845–865

Abstract

This article is concerned with the numerical detection of bifurcation points of nonlinear partial differential equations as some parameter of interest is varied. In particular, we study in detail the numerical approximation of the Bratu problem, based on exploiting the symmetric version of the interior penalty discontinuous Galerkin finite element method. A framework for a posteriori control of the discretization error in the computed critical parameter value is developed based upon the application of the dual weighted residual (DWR) approach. Numerical experiments are presented to highlight the practical performance of the proposed a posteriori error estimator.

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Journal Article Details

Publisher Name:    Global Science Press

Language:    English

DOI:    https://doi.org/10.4208/cicp.290709.120210a

Communications in Computational Physics, Vol. 8 (2010), Iss. 4 : pp. 845–865

Published online:    2010-01

AMS Subject Headings:    Global Science Press

Copyright:    COPYRIGHT: © Global Science Press

Pages:    21

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