Well-Posedness and Finite Element Approximations for Elliptic SPDEs with Gaussian Noises

Well-Posedness and Finite Element Approximations for Elliptic SPDEs with Gaussian Noises

Year:    2020

Author:    Yanzhao Cao, Jialin Hong, Zhihui Liu

Communications in Mathematical Research , Vol. 36 (2020), Iss. 2 : pp. 113–127

Abstract

The paper studies the well-posedness and optimal error estimates of spectral finite element approximations for the boundary value problems of semi-linear elliptic SPDEs driven by white or colored Gaussian noises. The noise term is approximated through the spectral projection of the covariance operator, which is not required to be commutative with the Laplacian operator. Through the convergence analysis of SPDEs with the noise terms replaced by the projected noises, the well-posedness of the SPDE is established under certain covariance operator-dependent conditions. These SPDEs with projected noises are then numerically approximated with the finite element method. A general error estimate framework is established for the finite element approximations. Based on this framework, optimal error estimates of finite element approximations for elliptic SPDEs driven by power-law noises are obtained. It is shown that with the proposed approach, convergence order of white noise driven SPDEs is improved by half for one-dimensional problems, and by an infinitesimal factor for higher-dimensional problems.

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Journal Article Details

Publisher Name:    Global Science Press

Language:    English

DOI:    https://doi.org/10.4208/cmr.2020-0006

Communications in Mathematical Research , Vol. 36 (2020), Iss. 2 : pp. 113–127

Published online:    2020-01

AMS Subject Headings:    Global Science Press

Copyright:    COPYRIGHT: © Global Science Press

Pages:    15

Keywords:    Elliptic stochastic partial differential equation spectral approximations finite element approximations power-law noise.

Author Details

Yanzhao Cao

Jialin Hong

Zhihui Liu