Error estimates in L2, H1 and L∞ in covolume methods for elliptic and parabolic problems: A unified approach

Mathematics of Computation

Volumn 69, Issue 229, 2000, Pages 103-120

  Chou, So Hsiang ^a   Li, Qian ^b  

^a BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SHANDONG NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Covolume methods; Finite volume element; Finite volume methods; Generalized difference methods; Network methods

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001347009     PISSN: 00255718     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1090/s0025-5718-99-01192-8     Document Type: Article

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