Local a posteriori error estimates and adaptive control of pollution effects

Local a posteriori error estimators are derived for linear elliptic problems over general polygonal domains in 2d. The estimators lead to a sharp upper bound for the energy error in a local region of interest. This upper bound consists of H1-type local error indicators in a slightly larger subdomain, plus weighted L2-type local error indicators outside this subdomain, which account for the pollution effects. This constitutes the basis of a local adaptive refinement procedure. Numerical experiments show a superior performance than the standard global procedure as well as the generation of locally quasi-optimal meshes. © 2003 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Numer Methods Partial Differential Eq 19: 421–442, 2003

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