Mathematical Institute, Academy of Sciences, Zitná 25, Praha 1, CZ-115 67, Czech Republic ; Institute of Thermomechanics, Academy of Sciences, Dolejskova 5, Praha 8, CZ-182 00, Czech Republic
Abstract:
We formulate a sufficient condition on the mesh under which we prove the discrete maximum principle (DMP) for the one-dimensional Poisson equation with Dirichlet boundary conditions discretized by the -FEM. The DMP holds if a relative length of every element in the mesh is bounded by a value , where is the polynomial degree of the element . The values are calculated for .