A non-mortar mixed finite element method for elliptic problems on non-matching multiblock grids

Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering

Volumn 149, Issue 1-4, 1997, Pages 255-265

  Arbogast, Todd ^a   Yotov, Ivan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; OPTIMIZATION;

ELLIPTIC EQUATIONS;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 0031250556     PISSN: 00457825     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0045-7825(97)00054-6     Document Type: Article

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