Weighted Error Estimates for Finite Element Solutions of Variational Inequalities

Computing (Vienna/New York)

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 119-134

  Blum, Heribert ^a   Suttmeier, Franz Theo ^a  

^a TU DORTMUND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

A posteriori error estimate; Adaptivity; Contact problem; Finite element method; Obstacle problem; Variational inequality

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000735793     PISSN: 0010485X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s006070070015     Document Type: Article

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