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Let Ω ⊂ ℝd, \(d \geqslant 1\), be a bounded domain with piecewise smooth boundary ∂ Ω and let U be an open subset of a Banach space Y. Motivated by questions in “Uncertainty Quantification,” we consider a parametric family P = (P
y
)
y ∈ U
of uniformly strongly elliptic, second order partial differential operators P
y
on Ω. We allow jump discontinuities in the coefficients. We establish a regularity result for the solution u: Ω×U → ℝ of the parametric, elliptic boundary value/transmission problem P
y
u
y
= f
y
, y ∈ U, with mixed Dirichlet-Neumann boundary conditions in the case when the boundary and the interface are smooth and in the general case for d = 2. Our regularity and well-posedness results are formulated in a scale of broken weighted Sobolev spaces of Babuška-Kondrat’ev type in Ω, possibly augmented by some locally constant functions. This implies that the parametric, elliptic PDEs (P
y
)
y ∈ U
admit a shift theorem that is uniform in the parameter y ∈ U. In turn, this then leads to h
m-quasi-optimal rates of convergence (i. e., algebraic orders of convergence) for the Galerkin approximations of the solution u, where the approximation spaces are defined using the “polynomial chaos expansion” of u with respect to a suitable family of tensorized Lagrange polynomials, following the method developed by Cohen, Devore, and Schwab (2010).
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Li, H., Nistor, V., Qiao, Y. (2013). Uniform Shift Estimates for Transmission Problems and Optimal Rates of Convergence for the Parametric Finite Element Method. In: Dimov, I., Faragó, I., Vulkov, L. (eds) Numerical Analysis and Its Applications. NAA 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8236. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-41515-9_2
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