A posteriori error analysis of Euler-Galerkin approximations to coupled elliptic-parabolic problems
We analyze Euler-Galerkin approximations (conforming finite elements in space and implicit Euler in time) to coupled PDE systems in which one dependent variable, say , is governed by an elliptic equation and the other, say , by a parabolic-like equation. The underlying application is the poroelasticity system within the quasi-static assumption. Different polynomial orders are used for the - and -components to obtain optimally convergent a priori bounds for all the terms in the error energy norm....