Can a finite element method perform arbitrarily badly?

Mathematics of Computation

Volumn 69, Issue 230, 2000, Pages 443-462

  Babuška, Ivo ^a   Osborn, John E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b Bldg 142   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptivity; Convergence; Finite element methods; Rough coefficients

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034396190     PISSN: 00255718     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1090/s0025-5718-99-01085-6     Document Type: Article

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