TY - JOUR
T1 - Pointwise Goal-Oriented a Posteriori Error Estimates Using Dual Problems with Dirac Delta Source Terms for Linear Elliptic Problems
AU - Li , Fei
AU - Liu , Jingang
AU - Yi , Nianyu
AU - Zhong , Liuqiang
JO - Advances in Applied Mathematics and Mechanics
VL - 1
SP - 222
EP - 241
PY - 2025
DA - 2025/10
SN - 18
DO - http://doi.org/10.4208/aamm.OA-2023-0186
UR - https://global-sci.org/intro/article_detail/aamm/24525.html
KW - Pointwise quantity of interest, a posteriori error estimate, adaptive finite element method, Dirac delta source term.
AB - <p style="text-align: justify;">In this paper, a pointwise goal-oriented residual-based a posteriori error estimator is proposed for linear elliptic equations with restricted source terms. The pointwise error is directly estimated by introducing the dual problem with a Dirac delta source term instead of using classical mollification technique. The goal-oriented error estimator is proved to be the upper bound of the pointwise error. Numerical experiments show the advantage of the adaptive finite element method (AFEM) based on this error estimator, which can preserve the monotonicity of the pointwise error, compared with the goal-oriented AFEM using the mollification technique.</p>