Speaker: 

Xuehai Huang

Institution: 

Wenzhou University

Time: 

Monday, February 12, 2018 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm

Host: 

Location: 

RH306

A framework to systematically decouple high order elliptic equations into combination of Poisson-type and Stokes-type equations is developed using the tools of differential complexes and Helmholtz decompositions. The key step is to systematically construct the underling commutative diagrams involving the complexes and Helmholtz decompositions in a general way.

Discretizing the decoupled formulation leads to a natural superconvergence between the Galerkin projection and the decoupled approximation. Examples include but not limit to: the primal formulations and mixed formulation of biharmonic equation, fourth order curl equation, and triharmonic equation etc. As a by-product, Helmholtz decompositions for many dual spaces are obtained.