2012, Jenkins, Eleanor W., John, Volker, Linke, Alexander, Rebholz, Leo G.

Grad-div stabilization has been proved to be a very useful tool in discretizations of incompressible flow problems. Standard error analysis for inf-sup stable conforming pairs of finite element spaces predicts that the stabilization parameter should be optimally chosen to be O(1). This paper revisits this choice for the Stokes equations on the basis of minimizing the H1( ) error of the velocity and the L2( ) error of the pressure. It turns out, by applying a refined error analysis, that the optimal parameter choice is more subtle than known so far in the literature. It depends on the used norm, the solution, the family of finite element spaces, and the type of mesh. Depending on the situation, the optimal stabilization parameter might range from being very small to very large. The analytic results are supported by numerical examples.

2009, Lu, Shuai, Mathé, Karsten

We analyze some parameter choice strategies in regularization of inverse problems, in particular the (modified) L-curve method and a variant of the Hanke-Raus rule. These are heuristic rules, free of the noise level, and they are based on minimization of some functional. We analyze these functionals, and we prove some optimality results under general smoothness conditions. We also devise some numerical approach for finding the minimizers, which uses model functions. Numerical experiments indicate that this is an efficient numerical procedure.