The Adini finite element on locally refined meshes

2025/01/21 by Dietmar Gallistl, Gallistl, Dietmar
Computer Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Mathematical Modeling in Engineering #Computational Geometry and Mesh Generation #Electromagnetic Scattering and Analysis #FOS: Mathematics #Numerical Analysis (math.NA)

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2501.11981

openalex publication_date 2025/01/21 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

This work introduces a locally refined version of the Adini finite element for the planar biharmonic equation on rectangular partitions with at most one hanging node per edge. If global continuity of the discrete functions is enforced, for such method there is some freedom in assigning the normal derivative degree of freedom at the hanging nodes. It is proven that the convergence order h² known for regular solutions and regular partitions is lost for any such choice, and that assigning the average of the normal derivatives at the neighbouring regular vertices is the only choice that achieves a superlinear order, namely h^3/2 on uniformly refined meshes. On adaptive meshes, the method behaves like a first-order scheme. Furthermore, the reliability and efficiency of an explicit residual-based error estimator are shown up to the best approximation of the Hessian by certain piecewise polynomial functions.

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