A New Formulation of the Mixed Finite Element Method for Solving Elliptic and Parabolic PDE with Triangular Elements

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 149, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 148-167

  Younes, Anis ^a   Mose, Robert ^a   Ackerer, Philippe ^a   Chavent, Guy ^b  

^a Faculté de Médecine   (France)

^b INRIA   (France)

Author keywords

Elliptic parabolic problem; Finite volume method; Mixed finite element method; Triangular elements

Indexed keywords

FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER FLOW; NUMERICAL METHODS;

DARCY-FLOW MODEL; ELLIPTIC PDES; ELLIPTIC-PARABOLIC PROBLEM; FINITE-VOLUME METHOD; FLOW PROBLEMS; MIXED FINITE ELEMENT METHODS; MIXED FORMULATIONS; PARABOLIC PDES; PARABOLIC PROBLEMS; TRIANGULAR ELEMENTS;

FINITE VOLUME METHOD;

EID: 0001264684     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jcph.1998.6150     Document Type: Article

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