Lower-order equivalent nonstandard finite element methods for biharmonic plates
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The popular (piecewise) quadratic schemes for the biharmonic equation based on triangles are the nonconforming Morley finite element, the discontinuous Galerkin, the C^0 interior penalty, and the WOPSIP schemes. Those methods are modified in their right-hand side F∈ H^-2(Ω) replaced by F∘ (JI_ M) and then are quasi-optimal in their respective discrete norms. The smoother JI_ M is defined for a piecewise smooth input function by a (generalized) Morley interpolation I_ M followed by a companion operator J. An abstract framework for the error analysis in the energy, weaker and piecewise Sobolev norms for the schemes is outlined and applied to the biharmonic equation. Three errors are also equivalent in some particular discrete norm from [Carstensen, Gallistl, Nataraj: Comparison results of nonstandard P_2 finite element methods for the biharmonic problem, ESAIM Math. Model. Numer. Anal. (2015)] without data oscillations. This paper extends the work [Veeser, Zanotti: Quasi-optimal nonconforming methods for symmetric elliptic problems, SIAM J. Numer. Anal. 56 (2018)] to the discontinuous Galerkin scheme and adds error estimates in weaker and piecewise Sobolev norms.
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