A Two-Grid Method for the C<sup>0</sup> Interior Penalty Discretization of the Monge-Ampère Equation

A Two-Grid Method for the C<sup>0</sup> Interior Penalty Discretization of the Monge-Ampère Equation

Year:    2020

Author:    Gerard Awanou, Hengguang Li, Eric Malitz

Journal of Computational Mathematics, Vol. 38 (2020), Iss. 4 : pp. 547–564

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to analyze an efficient method for the solution of the nonlinear system resulting from the discretization of the elliptic Monge-Ampère equation by a $C^0$ interior penalty method with Lagrange finite elements. We consider the two-grid method for nonlinear equations which consists in solving the discrete nonlinear system on a coarse mesh and using that solution as initial guess for one iteration of Newton's method on a finer mesh. Thus both steps are inexpensive. We give quasi-optimal $W^{1,\infty}$ error estimates for the discretization and estimate the difference between the interior penalty solution and the two-grid numerical solution. Numerical experiments confirm the computational efficiency of the approach compared to Newton's method on the fine mesh.


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Journal Article Details

Publisher Name:    Global Science Press

Language:    English

DOI:    https://doi.org/10.4208/jcm.1901-m2018-0039

Journal of Computational Mathematics, Vol. 38 (2020), Iss. 4 : pp. 547–564

Published online:    2020-01

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Copyright:    COPYRIGHT: © Global Science Press

Pages:    18

Keywords:    Two-grid discretization Interior penalty method Finite element Monge-Ampère.

Author Details

Gerard Awanou

Hengguang Li

Eric Malitz