A note on the approximation of free boundaries by finite element methods
Pointwise Accuracy of a Finite Element Method for Nonlinear Variational Inequalities.
Sharp L...-Error Estimates for Semilinear Elliptic Problems with Free Boundaries.
First variation of the general curvature-dependent surface energy
We consider general surface energies, which are weighted integrals over a closed surface with a weight function depending on the position, the unit normal and the mean curvature of the surface. Energies of this form have applications in many areas, such as materials science, biology and image processing. Often one is interested in finding a surface that minimizes such an energy, which entails finding its first variation with respect to perturbations of the surface. We present a concise derivation...
Optimal error estimates for semidiscrete phase relaxation models
Sharp maximum norm error estimates for general mixed finite element approximations to second order elliptic equations
First variation of the general curvature-dependent surface energy
We consider general surface energies, which are weighted integrals over a closed surface with a weight function depending on the position, the unit normal and the mean curvature of the surface. Energies of this form have applications in many areas, such as materials science, biology and image processing. Often one is interested in finding a surface that minimizes such an energy, which entails finding its first variation with respect to perturbations of the surface. We present a concise derivation...
A posteriori error control for the Allen–Cahn problem : circumventing Gronwall’s inequality
Phase-field models, the simplest of which is Allen–Cahn’s problem, are characterized by a small parameter that dictates the interface thickness. These models naturally call for mesh adaptation techniques, which rely on a posteriori error control. However, their error analysis usually deals with the underlying non-monotone nonlinearity via a Gronwall argument which leads to an exponential dependence on . Using an energy argument combined with a topological continuation argument and a spectral...
Error control and adaptivity for a phase relaxation model
Adaptive finite element method for shape optimization
We examine shape optimization problems in the context of inexact sequential quadratic programming. Inexactness is a consequence of using adaptive finite element methods (AFEM) to approximate the state and adjoint equations (the dual weighted residual method), update the boundary, and compute the geometric functional. We present a novel algorithm that equidistributes the errors due to shape optimization and discretization, thereby leading to coarse resolution in the early stages and fine resolution...
Adapting meshes and time-steps for phase change problems
We address the numerical approximation of the two-phase Stefan problem and discuss an adaptive finite element method based on rigorous a posteriori error estimation and refinement/coarsening. We also investigate how to restrict coarsening for the resulting method to be stable and convergent. We review implementation issues associated with bisection and conclude with simulations of a persistent corner singularity, for which adaptivity is an essential tool.
Error Control and Andaptivity for a Phase Relaxation Model
The phase relaxation model is a diffuse interface model with small parameter which consists of a parabolic PDE for temperature and an ODE with double obstacles for phase variable . To decouple the system a semi-explicit Euler method with variable step-size is used for time discretization, which requires the stability constraint . Conforming piecewise linear finite elements over highly graded simplicial meshes with parameter are further employed for space discretization. error estimates...
A finite element scheme for the evolution of orientational order in fluid membranes
We investigate the evolution of an almost flat membrane driven by competition of the homogeneous, Frank, and bending energies as well as the coupling of the local order of the constituent molecules of the membrane to its curvature. We propose an alternative to the model in [J.B. Fournier and P. Galatoa, (1997) 1509–1520; N. Uchida, (2002) 040902] which replaces a Ginzburg-Landau penalization for the length of the order parameter by a rigid constraint. We introduce...
error control for the Allen–Cahn problem: circumventing Gronwall's inequality
Phase-field models, the simplest of which is Allen–Cahn's problem, are characterized by a small parameter that dictates the interface thickness. These models naturally call for mesh adaptation techniques, which rely on error control. However, their error analysis usually deals with the underlying non-monotone nonlinearity via a Gronwall argument which leads to an exponential dependence on ε. Using an energy argument combined with a topological continuation argument and a spectral estimate,...
error analysis for parabolic variational inequalities
Motivated by the pricing of American options for baskets we consider a parabolic variational inequality in a bounded polyhedral domain with a continuous piecewise smooth obstacle. We formulate a fully discrete method by using piecewise linear finite elements in space and the backward Euler method in time. We define an error estimator and show that it gives an upper bound for the error in (Ω)). The error estimator is localized in the sense that the size of the elliptic residual is only relevant...
Pointwise a posteriori error analysis for an adaptive penalty finite element method for the obstacle problem.
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