Fully computable a posteriori error estimator using anisotropic flux equilibration on anisotropic meshes

Abstract

Fully computable a posteriori error estimates in the energy norm are given for singularly perturbed semilinear reaction-diffusion equations posed in polygonal domains. Linear finite elements are considered on anisotropic triangulations. To deal with the latter, we employ anisotropic quadrature and explicit anisotropic flux reconstruction. Prior to the flux equilibration, divergence-free corrections are introduced for pairs of anisotropic triangles sharing a short edge. We also give an upper bound for the resulting estimator, in which the error constants are independent of the diameters and the aspect ratios of mesh elements, and of the small perturbation parameter.