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Analysis of Galerkin Methods for the Fully Nonlinear Monge-Ampère Equation

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This paper develops and analyzes finite element Galerkin and spectral Galerkin methods for approximating viscosity solutions of the fully nonlinear Monge-Ampère equation det (D 2 u 0)=f (>0) based on the vanishing moment method which was developed by the authors in Feng and Neilan (J. Sci. Comput. 38:74–98, 2009) and Feng (Convergence of the vanishing moment method for the Monge-Ampère equation, submitted). In this approach, the Monge-Ampère equation is approximated by the fourth order quasilinear equation −εΔ2 u ε+det D 2 u ε=f accompanied by appropriate boundary conditions. This new approach enables us to construct convergent Galerkin numerical methods for the fully nonlinear Monge-Ampère equation (and other fully nonlinear second order partial differential equations), a task which has been impracticable before. In this paper, we first develop some finite element and spectral Galerkin methods for approximating the solution u ε of the regularized problem. We then derive optimal order error estimates for the proposed numerical methods. In particular, we track explicitly the dependence of the error bounds on the parameter ε, for the error \(u^{\varepsilon}-u^{\varepsilon}_{h}\). Due to the strong nonlinearity of the underlying equation, the standard error estimate technique, which has been widely used for error analysis of finite element approximations of nonlinear problems, does not work here. To overcome the difficulty, we employ a fixed point technique which strongly makes use of the stability property of the linearized problem and its finite element approximations. Finally, using the Argyris finite element method as an example, we present a detailed numerical study of the rates of convergence in terms of powers of ε for the error \(u^{0}-u_{h}^{\varepsilon}\), and numerically examine what is the “best” mesh size h in relation to ε in order to achieve these rates.

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    Xiaobing Feng

  2. Center for Computation and Technology and Department of Mathematics, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, 70803, USA

    Michael Neilan

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This work was partially supported by the NSF grants DMS-0410266 and DMS-0710831.

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Feng, X., Neilan, M. Analysis of Galerkin Methods for the Fully Nonlinear Monge-Ampère Equation. J Sci Comput 47, 303–327 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10915-010-9439-1

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