Authors: Ansgar Jüngel Andreas Unterreiter
Publish Date: 2004/11/26
Volume: 99, Issue: 3, Pages: 485-508
Abstract
Uniform lower and upper bounds for positive finiteelement approximations to semilinear elliptic equations in several space dimensions subject to mixed DirichletNeumann boundary conditions are derived The main feature is that the nonlinearity may be nonmonotone and unbounded The discrete minimum principle provides a positivitypreserving approximation if the discretization parameter is small enough and if some structure conditions on the nonlinearity and the triangulation are assumed The discrete maximum principle also holds for degenerate diffusion coefficients The proofs are based on Stampacchia’s truncation technique and on a variational formulation Both methods are settled on careful estimates on the truncation operator
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