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The aim of this paper is to provide new perspectives on relative finite element accuracy which is usually based on the asymptotic speed of convergence comparison when the mesh size h goes to zero. Starting from a geometrical reading of the error estimate due to Bramble-Hilbert lemma, we derive two probability distributions that estimate the relative accuracy, considered as a random variable, between two Lagrange finite elements \(P_k\) and \(P_m\), (\(k < m\)). We establish mathematical properties of these probabilistic distributions and we get new insights which, among others, show that \(P_k\) or \(P_m\) is more likely accurate than the other, depending on the value of the mesh size h.
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Chaskalovic, J., Assous, F. (2019). From a Geometrical Interpretation of Bramble-Hilbert Lemma to a Probability Distribution for Finite Element Accuracy. In: Dimov, I., Faragó, I., Vulkov, L. (eds) Finite Difference Methods. Theory and Applications. FDM 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11386. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11539-5_1
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