Abstract
Data oscillation is intrinsic information missed by the averaging process associated with finite element methods (FEM) regardless of quadrature. Ensuring a reduction rate of data oscillation, together with an error reduction based on a posteriori error estimators, we construct a simple and efficient adaptive FEM for elliptic PDE with linear rate of convergence without any preliminary mesh adaptation nor explicit knowledge of constants. Any prescribed error tolerance is thus achieved in a finite number of steps. A number of numerical experiments in 2d and 3d yield quasi-optimal meshes along with a competitive performance. Key words. A posteriori error estimators, data oscillation, adaptive mesh refinement, convergence, performance, quasi-optimal meshes 1991 AMS subject classification. 65N12, 65N15, 65N30, 65N50, 65Y20 1 Introduction and Main Results Adaptive procedures for the numerical solution of partial differential equations (PDE) started in the late 70's and are now standard tools.
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