A General Error Estimate For Parabolic Variational Inequalities
The gradient discretisation method (GDM) is a generic framework designed recently, as a discretise in spatial space, to partial differential equations. This paper aims to use the GDM to establish a first general error estimate for numerical approximations of parabolic obstacle problems. This gives the convergence rates of several well–known conforming and non conforming numerical methods. Numerical experiments based on the hybrid finite volume method are provided to verify the theoretical results.
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