W1,∞-convergence of the discrete free boundary for obstacle problems

IMA Journal of Numerical Analysis

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 481-498

  Deckelnick, Klaus ^a   Siebert, Kunibert G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS;

ERROR BOUND; FINITE-ELEMENT DISCRETIZATION; FREE BOUNDARY; HAUSDORFF DISTANCE; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; OBSTACLE PROBLEMS; THREE DIMENSIONS; VARIATIONAL INEQUALITIES;

VARIATIONAL TECHNIQUES;

EID: 0034349134     PISSN: 02724979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/imanum/20.3.481     Document Type: Article

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