Abstract
In this paper we study the adaptive finite element method for parabolic equations with Dirac measure. Two kinds of problems with separate measure data in time and measure data in space are considered. It is well known that the solutions of such kind of problems may exhibit lower regularity due to the existence of the Dirac measure, and thus fit to adaptive FEM for space discretization and variable time steps for time discretization. For both cases we use piecewise linear and continuous finite elements for the space discretization and backward Euler scheme, or equivalently piecewise constant discontinuous Galerkin method, for the time discretization, the a posteriori error estimates based on energy and L2 norms for the fully discrete problems are then derived to guide the adaptive procedure. Numerical results are provided at the end of the paper to support our theoretical findings.
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