Numerische Quadratur bei Projektionsverfahren

Summary In this paper we investigate the influence of the numerical quadrature in projection methods. In particular we derive conditions for the order of the quadrature formulas in finite element methods under which the order of convergence is not perturbed. It seems that this question has been discussed only for the Ritz method. There is an essential difference between this method on one side and the Galerkin and least squares methods on the other side. The methods using numerical integration are only in the latter case still projection methods. The resulting conditions for the quadrature formulas are often much weaker than those for the Ritz method. Numerical examples using cubic splines and polynomials show that the conditions derived are realistic. These examples also allow the comparison of some projection methods.