Analysis of the FEM and DGM for an elliptic problem with a nonlinear Newton boundary condition

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Miloslav Feistauer Ondřej Bartoš Filip Roskovec Anna-Margarete Sändig

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The paper is concerned with the numerical analysis of an elliptic equation in a polygon with a nonlinear Newton boundary condition, discretized by the finite element or discontinuous Galerkin methods. Using the monotone operator theory, it is possible  to prove the existence and uniqueness of the exact weak solution and the approximate solution. The main attention is paid to the study of error estimates. To this end, the regularity of  the weak solution is investigated and it is shown that due to the boundary corner points,  the solution looses regularity in a vicinity of these points. It comes out that the error estimation depends essentially on the opening angle of the corner points and on the parameter defining the nonlinear behaviour of  the Newton boundary condition. Theoretical results are compared with numerical experiments confirming a nonstandard behaviour of error estimates.

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Feistauer, M., Bartoš, O., Roskovec, F., & Sändig, A. (2017). Analysis of the FEM and DGM for an elliptic problem with a nonlinear Newton boundary condition. Proceedings Of Equadiff 2017 Conference, , 127-136. Retrieved from http://www.iam.fmph.uniba.sk/amuc/ojs/index.php/equadiff/article/view/722/556
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