A posteriori error estimators for the Raviart-thomas element

SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 2431-2444

  Braess, D ^a   Verfurth R ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

A posteriori error estimation; Mesh dependent norms; Mixed formulation of the poisson equation; Raviart Thomas element

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000518260     PISSN: 00361429     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/S0036142994264079     Document Type: Article

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