Direct guaranteed lower eigenvalue bounds with optimal a priori convergence rates for the bi-Laplacian
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An extra-stabilised Morley finite element method (FEM) directly computes guaranteed lower eigenvalue bounds with optimal a priori convergence rates for the bi-Laplace Dirichlet eigenvalues. The smallness assumption min{λ_h,λ}h_max^4 ≤ 15.0864 on the maximal mesh-size h_max makes the computed k-th discrete eigenvalue λ_h≤λ a lower eigenvalue bound for the k-th Dirichlet eigenvalue λ. This holds for multiple and clusters of eigenvalues and serves for the localisation of the bi-Laplacian Dirichlet eigenvalues in particular for coarse meshes. The analysis requires interpolation error estimates for the Morley FEM with explicit constants in any space dimension n≥ 2, which are of independent interest. The convergence analysis in 3D follows the Babuška-Osborn theory and relies on a companion operator for the Morley finite element method. This is based on the Worsey-Farin 3D version of the Hsieh-Clough-Tocher macro element with a careful selection of center points in a further decomposition of each tetrahedron into 12 sub-tetrahedra. Numerical experiments in 2D support the optimal convergence rates of the extra-stabilised Morley FEM and suggest an adaptive algorithm with optimal empirical convergence rates.
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