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Approximation by harmonic polynomials in star-shaped domains and exponential convergence of Trefftz hp-dGFEM∗

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2014

Ralf Hiptmair ,
Andrea Moiola ,
Ilaria Perugia  and
Christoph Schwab
Ralf Hiptmair
Affiliation:
Seminar of Applied Mathematics, ETH Zürich, 8092 Zürich, Switzerland.. hiptmair@math.ethz.ch
Andrea Moiola
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Reading, Whiteknights, RG6 6AX, UK.; a.moiola@reading.ac.uk
Ilaria Perugia
Affiliation:
Faculty of Mathematics, University of Vienna, 1090 Wien, Austria.; ilaria.perugia@univie.ac.at
Christoph Schwab
Affiliation:
Seminar of Applied Mathematics, ETH Zürich, 8092 Zürich, Switzerland.; schwab@math.ethz.ch
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Abstract

We study the approximation of harmonic functions by means of harmonic polynomials in two-dimensional, bounded, star-shaped domains. Assuming that the functions possess analytic extensions to a δ-neighbourhood of the domain, we prove exponential convergence of the approximation error with respect to the degree of the approximating harmonic polynomial. All the constants appearing in the bounds are explicit and depend only on the shape-regularity of the domain and on δ. We apply the obtained estimates to show exponential convergence with rate O(exp(-b√N)), N being the number of degrees of freedom and b > 0, of a hp-dGFEM discretisation of the Laplace equation based on piecewise harmonic polynomials. This result is an improvement over the classical rate O(exp(-b3√N)), and is due to the use of harmonic polynomial spaces, as opposed to complete polynomial spaces.

Keywords

Approximation by harmonic polynomialsexponential orders of convergencehp-finite elements
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ESAIM: Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Analysis , Volume 48 , Issue 3 , May 2014 , pp. 727 - 752
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© EDP Sciences, SMAI, 2014

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