Convergence of adaptive 3D BEM for weakly singular integral equations based on isotropic mesh‐refinement |
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| Authors: | Michael Karkulik Günther Of Dirk Praetorius |
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| Institution: | 1. Facultad de Matemáticas, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Avenida Vicu?a Mackenna 4860, Santiago, Chile;2. Institut für Numerische Mathematik, Technische Universit?t Graz, Steyrergasse 30, A‐8010 Graz, Austria;3. Institute for Analysis and Scientific Computing, Vienna University of Technology, Wiedner Hauptstra?e 8‐10, A‐1040 Wien, Austria |
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| Abstract: | We consider the adaptive lowest‐order boundary element method based on isotropic mesh refinement for the weakly‐singular integral equation for the three‐dimensional Laplacian. The proposed scheme resolves both, possible singularities of the solution as well as of the given data. The implementation thus only deals with discrete integral operators, that is, matrices. We prove that the usual adaptive mesh‐refining algorithm drives the corresponding error estimator to zero. Under an appropriate saturation assumption which is observed empirically, the sequence of discrete solutions thus tends to the exact solution within the energy norm. © 2013 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Numer Methods Partial Differential Eq, 2013 |
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| Keywords: | adaptive algorithm adaptive boundary element method error reduction fast multipole method |
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