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Adaptive boundary-element methods for transmission problems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 February 2009

Carsten Carstensen  and
Ernst P. Stephan
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In this paper we present an adaptive boundary-element method for a transmission prob-lem for the Laplacian in a two-dimensional Lipschitz domain. We are concerned with an equivalent system of boundary-integral equations of the first kind (on the transmission boundary) involving weakly-singular, singular and hypersingular integral operators. For the h-version boundary-element (Galerkin) discretization we derive an a posteriori error estimate which guarantees a given bound for the error in the energy norm (up to a multiplicative constant). Then, following Eriksson and Johnson this yields an adaptive algorithm steering the mesh refinement. Numerical examples confirm that our adaptive algorithms yield automatically good triangulations and are efficient.

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Research Article
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The ANZIAM Journal , Volume 38 , Issue 3 , January 1997 , pp. 336 - 367
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Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1997

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