Hierarchical a posteriori error estimators for mortar finite element methods with Lagrange multipliers

SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1636-1658

  Wohlmuth, Barbara I ^a,b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUGSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

A posteriori error estimation; Adaptive grid refinement; Lagrange multiplier; Mesh dependent norms; Mortar finite elements

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000539547     PISSN: 00361429     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/S0036142997330512     Document Type: Article

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