A posteriori error estimates for variable time-step discretizations of nonlinear evolution equations

Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 525-589

  Nochetto, Ricardo H ^a   Savaré, Giuseppe ^b   Verdi, Claudio ^c  

^a University of Maryland   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

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DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0312(200005)53:5<525::AID-CPA1>3.0.CO;2-M     Document Type: Article

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