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Since the triangulation is assumed to be shape-regular, we could estimate the di-
ameters of all triangles in ω T by ch T , i.e. the diameter of T . The estimates are still
local. The minimal property of the L 2 -projector Q h implies
v Q h v
c
T
2
0
h T v
2
1 ,T .
( 7 . 15 )
Next from the Bramble-Hilbert lemma and a standard scaling argument we know
that there is a piecewise constant function w h M
0 ( T h ) such that
v w h 0 ,T ch T | v | 1 ,T .
Now we apply an inverse estimate on each triangle:
2
1
2
1 ,T
2
1 ,T
| Q h v |
=
| Q h v |
=
| Q h v w h |
T
T
c
T
h 2
2
0 ,T
Q h v w h
T
2 h T
0 ,T
c
T
2
0 ,T
2
Q h v v
+ v w h
c
T
2
1 ,T
2
v
= c v
1 .
Since Q h v 0 v 0 v 1 , the proof is complete.
Note that Problem 6.15 illustrates that one has to be careful when dealing with
a projector for one norm and considering stability for another one.
Problems
7.10 Consider solving the boundary-value problem
u =
1 ) 2
2 ,
0in
:
= (
1 , +
⊂ R
u(x, y) = xy on
using linear triangular elements on a regular triangular grid with 2 /h ∈ N
as in the
model problem 4.3. When the reduction to homogeneous boundary conditions as
in (2.21) is performed with
1
+ x y
for x y,
u 0 (x, y) :
=
+ y x for x y,
the finite element approximation at the grid points is
1
u h (x i ,y i ) = u(x i ,y i ) = x i y i .
( 7 . 16 )
Verify that the minimal value for the variational functional on S h is
8
3 +
4
3 h 2 ,
J(u h ) =
and hence, J(u h ) is only an approximation.
 
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