Sufficient conditions for converging drift-diffusion discrete systems. Application to the finite element method

Mathematical Methods in the Applied Sciences

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 33-51

  Nachaoui, Abdeljalil ^a   Nassif, Nabil R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE NANTES   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE REIMS CHAMPAGNE ARDENNE   (France)

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EID: 0002599991     PISSN: 01704214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1476(19960110)19:1<33::AID-MMA759>3.0.CO;2-H     Document Type: Article

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