Comparison of two methods for the computation of singular solutions in elliptic problems

Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 277-287

  Georgiou, Georgios ^a   Boudouvis, Andreas ^b   Poullikkas, Andreas ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

^b NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c Electricity Authority of Cyprus   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

Convergence; Elliptic problems; Singularities

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; POLYNOMIALS;

INTEGRATED SINGULAR BASIS FUNCTION METHOD (ISBFM);

BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS;

EID: 0031095490     PISSN: 03770427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0377-0427(96)00173-2     Document Type: Article

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