TY - THES AB - Economical mesh structures are of great interest when simulating physical processes using the Finite Elemente Method. They are essential for a fast calculation producing results of high accuracy. In case of restricted problems, many a posteriori estimators which are the indicators for adaptive refinement turn out to be inconsistent in areas where the restriction takes place. The effort of the subject matter is to develop a method to overcome this problem by introducing saddle point formulations and using the Lagrangian multiplier to balance gaps in the error estimations. When dealing with sattle point problems there may arise the problem of unstable systems due to an injured inf-sup-condition, especially in the discrete case. We solve this problem using the Galerkin least squares method. In consequence we get additional terms which also have to be taken into account when developing the a posteriori estimators. To examine the general validity of this method we analyse problems of different type. That means linear and nonlinear problems with linear or nonlinear restrictions in the primal or dual variable, respectively. In all cases, the resulting adaptive mesh structures turn out out to be very efficient since they outline critical zones of the underlying problems which is confirmed by numerical tests. AU - Klein, Nicole DA - 2012 KW - Finite-Elemente-Methode KW - FEM KW - Adaptivität KW - a posteriori Fehlerschätzer KW - finite element method KW - adaptivity KW - variational inequality KW - a posteriori error estimate LA - eng PY - 2012 TI - Consistent FE-analysis of elliptic variational inequalities UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hbz:467-7429 Y2 - 2024-11-22T03:55:26 ER -