SUPERCONVERGENCE OF RITZ-VOLTERRA PROJECTION ON FINITE ELEMENT SPACES

The purpose of this paper is to study the superconvergence properties of Ritz-Volterra projection.Through construction a new type of Green function and making use of its properties and the principle of duality,the paper proves that the Ritz-Volterra projection defined on r-1 order finite element spaces of Lagrange type in one and two space variable cases possesses O(h2r~2)order and O(h4+1|Inh|)order nodal superconvergence,respectively,and the same type of superconver-gence results are demonstrated for the semidiscrete finite dement approximate solutions of Soboleve-quations.     

SUPERCONVERGENCE FOR L~2-PROJECTION IN FINITE ELEMENTS

Consider L~2-projection u_h of u to n-degree finite element space on one-dimensional uniform grids. Two different classes of the orthogonal expansion in an element for constructing a superclose to function u_h are proposed and then superconvergence for both u_h and Du_h are proved. When n is odd and no boundary conditions are prescribed, then u_h is of superconvergence at n+1 order Gauss points G_(n+1) in each element. When n is even and function values on the boundary are prescribed, then u_h is of superconvergence at n+1 order points Z_(n+1) in each element. If the other boundary conditions are given, then the conclusions are valid in all elements that its distance from the boundary≥ch|lnh|. The above conclusions are also valid. for n-dergree rectangular element Q_1 (n).     

SOME ARGUMENTS FOR RECOVERING THE FINITE ELEMENT~*

The dual argument is well known for recoving the optimal L_2-error of the finite element method in elliptic context. This argument, however, will lose efficacy in hyperbolic case. An expansion argument and an approximation argument are presented in this paper to recover the optimal L_2-error of finite element methods for hyperbolic problems. In particular, a second order error estimate in L_2-norm for the standard linear finite element method of hyperbolic problems is obtained if the exact solution is smooth and the finite element mesh is almost uniform, and some superconvergence estimates are also established for leas smooth solution.     

CONVERGENCE AND SUPERCONVERGENCE ANALYSIS OF LAGRANGE RECTANGULAR ELEMENTS WITH ANY ORDER ON ARBITRARY RECTANGULAR MESHES

This paper is to study the convergence and superconvergence of rectangular finite elements under anisotropic meshes. By using of the orthogonal expansion method, an anisotropic Lagrange interpolation is presented. The family of Lagrange rectangular elements with all the possible shape function spaces are considered, which cover the Intermediate families, Tensor-product families and Serendipity families. It is shown that the anisotropic interpolation error estimates hold for any order Sobolev norm. We extend the convergence and superconvergence result of rectangular finite elements to arbitrary rectangular meshes in a unified way.     

Superconvergence of RT1 mixed finite element approximations for elliptic control problems

In this paper,we investigate the superconvergence property of the numerical solution to a quadratic elliptic control problem by using mixed finite element methods.The state and co-state are approximated by the order k=1 Raviart-Thomas mixed finite element spaces and the control variable is approximated by piecewise constant functions.We prove the superconvergence error estimate of h3/2 in L2-norm between the approximated solution and the average L2 projection of the control.Moreover,by the postprocessing technique,a quadratic superconvergence result of the control is derived.     

鱼骨形网格上二阶方程混合元的超收敛

In this paper, superconvergence of the lowest order Raviart-Thomas mixed finite element approximation for second order Neumann boundary value problem on fishbone shape meshes is analyzed. The main term of the error between the exact solution and the finite element interpolating function is determined by Bramble-Hilbert lemma on the individual finite element. A part of the main term of the error on two adjacent finite elements can be cancelled along the special direction, and thus the higher order error estimate is obtained on the whole domain by summation. Compared with the general finite element error estimate,the convergence rate can be increased from order one to order two in L2-norm by postprocessing superconvergence technique.     

CONVERGENCE OF A MIXED FINITE ELEMENT FOR THE STOKES PROBLEM ON ANISOTROPIC MESHES

The main aim of this paper is to study the convergence properties of a low order mixed finite element for the Stokes problem under anisotropic meshes. We discuss the anisotropic convergence and superconvergence independent of the aspect ratio. Without the shape regularity assumption and inverse assumption on the meshes, the optimal error estimates and natural superconvergence at central points are obtained. The global superconvergence for the gradient of the velocity and the pressure is derived with the aid of a suitable postprocessing method. Furthermore, we develop a simple method to obtain the superclose properties which improves the results of the previous works .     

ON A MOVING MESH METHOD FOR SOLVING PARTIAL INTEGRO-DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS

This paper develops and analyzes a moving mesh finite difference method for solving partial integro-differential equations. First, the time-dependent mapping of the coordinate transformation is approximated by a a piecewise linear function in time. Then, piecewise quadratic polynomial in space and an efficient method to discretize the memory term of the equation is designed using the moving mesh approach. In each time slice, a simple piecewise constant approximation of the integrand is used, and thus a quadrature is constructed for the memory term. The central finite difference scheme for space and the backward Euler scheme for time are used. The paper proves that the accumulation of the quadrature error is uniformly bounded and that the convergence of the method is second order in space and first order in time. Numerical experiments are carried out to confirm the theoretical predictions.     

SUPERCONVERGENCE OF DG METHOD FOR ONE-DIMENSIONAL SINGULARLY PERTURBED PROBLEMS

The convergence and superconvergence properties of the discontinuous Galerkin （DG） method for a singularly perturbed model problem in one-dimensional setting are studied. By applying the DG method with appropriately chosen numerical traces, the existence and uniqueness of the DG solution, the optimal order L2 error bounds, and 2p＋ 1-order superconvergence of the numerical traces are established. The numerical results indicate that the DG method does not produce any oscillation even under the uniform mesh. Numerical experiments demonstrate that, under the uniform mesh, it seems impossible to obtain the uniform superconvergence of the numerical traces. Nevertheless, thanks to the implementation of the so-called Shishkin-type mesh, the uniform 2p ＋ 1-order superconvergence is observed numerically.     

A difference scheme for solving the Timoshenko beam equations with tip body

In this article, a Timoshenko beam with tip body and boundary damping is considered. A linearized three-level difference scheme of the Timoshenko beam equations on uniform meshes is derived by the method of reduction of order. The unique solvability, unconditional stability and convergence of the difference scheme are proved. The convergence order in maximum norm is of order two in both space and time. A numerical example is presented to demonstrate the theoretical results.