An adaptive Uzawa FEM for the Stokes problem: Convergence without the inf-sup condition

SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 1207-1229

  Bänsch, Eberhard ^a,b   Morin, Pedro ^c,d   Nochetto, Ricardo H ^e  

^a WEIERSTRASS INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED ANALYSIS AND STOCHASTICS   (Germany)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DEL LITORAL   (Argentina)

^d Instituto de Matematica Aplicada del Litoral   (Argentina)

^e Bldg 142   (United States)

Author keywords

A posteriori error estimators; Adaptive mesh refinement; Convergence; Data oscillation; Performance; Quasi optimal meshes

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; ERROR ANALYSIS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; ITERATIVE METHODS; OSCILLATIONS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

STOKES PROBLEM;

CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS;

EID: 0012733866     PISSN: 00361429     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/S0036142901392134     Document Type: Article

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