TY - JOUR T1 - A Posteriori Error Estimation of Spectral and Spectral Element Methods for the Stokes/Darcy Coupled Problem AU - Wang , Weiwei AU - Xu , Chuanju JO - Journal of Mathematical Study VL - 1 SP - 85 EP - 110 PY - 2014 DA - 2014/03 SN - 47 DO - http://doi.org/10.4208/jms.v47n1.14.05 UR - https://global-sci.org/intro/article_detail/jms/10113.html KW - A posteriori error, Stokes/Darcy coupled equations, Spectral method, Spectral element method. AB -

In this paper, we carry out an a posteriori error analysis of Legendre spectral approximations to the Stokes/Darcy coupled equations. The spectral approximations are based on a weak formulation of the coupled equations by using the Beavers-Joseph-Saffman interface condition. The main contribution of the paper consists of deriving a number of posteriori error indicators and their upper and lower bounds for the single domain case. An extension of the upper bounds to the multi-domain case in the spectral element framework is also given.