Conservative P1 conforming and nonconforming Galerkin FEMS: Effective flux evaluation via a nonmixed method approach

SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 660-680

  Chou, So Hsiang ^a   Tang, Shengrong ^a  

^a BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Conservative scheme; Darcy velocity; Displacement method; Equilibrium method; Finite element; Finite volume; Mixed method; P1 conforming or nonconforming; Porous media

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034448340     PISSN: 00361429     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/S0036142999361517     Document Type: Article

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