Adaptive finite element methods: A review

Applied Mechanics Reviews

Volumn 50, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 581-591

  Li, Long Yuan ^a   Bettess, Peter ^b  

^a ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; ERROR ANALYSIS; FUNCTIONS; INTERPOLATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

ADAPTIVE REFINEMENT PROCESSES; DISCRETIZATION ERRORS;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 0031244737     PISSN: 00036900     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.3101670     Document Type: Article

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