A posteriori error estimates for general numerical methods for Hamilton-Jacobi equations: part I: The steady state case

A new upper bound is provided for the L∞-norm of the difference between the viscosity solution of a model steady state Hamilton-Jacobi equation, u, and any given approximation, v. This upper bound is independent of the method used to compute the approximation v; it depends solely on the values that the residual takes on a subset of the domain which can be easily computed in terms of v. Numerical experiments investigating the sharpness of the a posteriori error estimate are given.