Article history: Received 12 September 2013 Received in revised form 8 April 2014 Accepted 3 July 2014 Available online 15 July 2014

Article history: Received 21 February 2012 Received in revised form 30 May 2012 Accepted 4 June 2012 Available online 16 June 2012

Article history: Received 27 March 2011 Accepted 3 May 2012 Available online 15 May 2012

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We consider the Galerkin boundary element method (BEM) for weaklysingular integral equations of the first-kind in 2D. We analyze some residual-type a posteriori error estimator which provides a lower as well as an upper bound for the unknown Galerkin BEM error. The required assumptions are weak and allow for piecewise smooth parametrizations of the boundary, local mesh-refinement, and related s...

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