Volume 74, Number 1, 67-73, DOI: 10.1007/s00607-004-0079-x

Verification of Reduced Convergence Rates

Hsin-Yun Hu and Zi-Cai Li

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Abstract

In this short article, we recalculate the numerical example in Krcaronízcaronek and Neittaanmäki (1987) for the Poisson solution u=xsgr(1–x)sinpgry in the unit square S as MediaObjects/s00607-004-0079-xflb1.gif. By the finite difference method, an error analysis for such a problem is given from our previous study by MediaObjects/s00607-004-0079-xflb2.gif where h is the meshspacing of the uniform square grids used, and C1 and C2 are two positive constants. Let epsi=uuh, where uh is the finite difference solution, and MediaObjects/s00607-004-0079-xflb3.gif is the discrete H1 norm. Several techniques are employed to confirm the reduced rate MediaObjects/s00607-004-0079-xflb4.gif of convergence, and to give the constants, C1=0.09034 and C2=0.002275 for a stripe domain. The better performance for MediaObjects/s00607-004-0079-xflb1.gif arises from the fact that the constant C1 is much large than C2, and the h in computation is not small enough.

AMS(MOS) Subject Classifications:  65N10 - 65N30

Keywords  Numerical verification - reduced convergence rates - superconvergence - singularity - Poisson equation

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