Pollution error in the h-version of the finite element method and the local quality of the recovered derivatives

Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering

Volumn 140, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 1-37

  Babuska I ^a   Strouboulis, T ^b   Gangaraj, S K ^b   Upadhyay, C S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b Texas AandM University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS;

GLOBALLY ADAPTIVE MESH; SOLUTION DERIVATIVES; ZIENKIEWICZ-ZHU SUPERCONVERGENT PATCH RECOVERY SCHEME;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 0030871492     PISSN: 00457825     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0045-7825(96)01013-4     Document Type: Article

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