Asymptotic behavior of semidiscrete finite-element approximations of Biot's consolidation problem

SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 1065-1083

  Murad, Márcio A ^a   Thomée, Vidar ^b   Loula, Abimael F D ^a  

^a LABORATÓRIO NACIONAL DE COMPUTAÇÃO CIENTÍFICA   (Brazil)

^b CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Asymptotic behavior; Biot's consolidation; Finite element methods

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000036606     PISSN: 00361429     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/0733052     Document Type: Article

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