On the necessity of Nitsche term
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instance of: scholarly article
title: On the necessity of Nitsche term
zbMATH Open document ID: 1201.65206
author: G. Dupire
author: J. P. Boufflet
author: Marc Dambrine
author: P. Villon
published in: Applied Numerical Mathematics
publication date: 2010-08-13T00:00:00Z
review text: The authors consider the Laplace equation with non homogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions in one and two dimensions. A finite element scheme is suggested using a special variational formulation involving the boundary condition data as a term in the equation, whereas the space of the solution and the space of test functions are \(\{u\in H^1(\Omega); \Delta\,u\in L^2(\Omega)\}\). In the one-dimensional case and using the above stated variational formulation, the authors suggest a piecewise linear space in order to approximate the exact solution and the space of test functions. A convergence analysis based on the use of the inf-sup inequality is provided. It is proved that the convergence order is optimal in the sense that the order is one, in the energy norm, and is two in the average norm. Unfortunately, the analysis used in the one-dimensional case cannot be used in higher dimensions for some geometrical reason stated by the authors. Consequently, some numerical experiments in dimension two are presented to justify the need of additional stabilization methods to obtain a reliable numerical method. The choice followed by the authors is the Nitsche method: that is to add some additional terms to the discrete bilinear and discrete linear forms. Thanks to some numerical experiments, it is proved that the addition of the Nitsche terms is not sufficient: a compatibility condition between the domain and the discrete grid should be added. Under this compatibility condition, the discrete Nitsche problem is well posed and its solution converges to the exact solution by an optimal order.
reviewed by: Abdallah Bradji
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 65N30
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 35J05
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 65N12
zbMATH DE Number: 5770452
zbMATH Keywords: Laplace equation
zbMATH Keywords: non homogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions
zbMATH Keywords: finite element methods
zbMATH Keywords: Nitsche method
zbMATH Keywords: geometrical compatibility condition
zbMATH Keywords: convergence
describes a project that uses: XFEM
MaRDI profile type: Publication
full work available at URL: j.apnum.2010.04.013
OpenAlex ID: W1969841437
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DOI: 10.1016/J.APNUM.2010.04.013
description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 5770452