| Abstract: | The basic theory of the strengthened Cauchy–Buniakowskii–Schwarz (C.B.S.) inequality is the main tool in the convergence analysis of the recently proposed algebraic multilevel iterative methods. An upper bound of the constant γ in the strengthened C.B.S. inequality for the case of the finite element solution of 2D elasticity problems is obtained. It is assumed that linear triangle finite elements are used, the initial mesh consisting of right isosceles triangles and the mesh refinement procedure being uniform. For the resulting linear algebraic systems we have proved that γ2<0.75 uniformly on the mesh parameter and on Poisson's ratio ν ? (0, 1/2). Furthermore, the presented numerical tests show that the same relation holds for arbitrary initial right triangulations, even in the case of degeneracy of triangles. The theoretical results obtained are practically important for successful implementation of the finite element method to large-scale modeling of complicated structures. They allow us to construct optimal order algebraic multilevel iterative solvers for a wide class of real–life elasticity problems. |
