TY - GEN A1 - Carstensen, Carsten A1 - Rabus, Hella T1 - An optimal adaptive mixed finite element method N2 - Various applications in fluid dynamics and computational continuum mechanics motivate the development of reliable and efficient adaptive algorithms for mixed finite element methods. In order to save degrees of freedom, not all but just some selected set of finite element domains are refined. Hence the fundamental question of convergence as well as the question of optimality require new mathematical arguments. The presented adaptive algorithm for Raviart-Thomas mixed finite element methods solves the Poisson model problem, with optimal convergence rate. Chen, Holst, and Xu presented "convergence and optimality of adaptive mixed finite element methods" (2008) following arguments of Rob Stevenson for the conforming finite element method. Their algorithm reduces oscillations separately, before approximating the solution by some adaptive algorithm in the spirit of W. Dörfler (1996). The algorithm proposed here appears more natural in switching to either reduction of the edge-error estimator or of the oscillations. KW - AFEM KW - adaptive mixed finite element method KW - AMFEM KW - optimal convergence Y1 - 2009 UR - https://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-matheon/frontdoor/index/index/docId/575 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0296-matheon-5757 ER -