On the relationship of various discontinuous finite element methods for second-order elliptic equations

Journal of Numerical Mathematics

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 99-122

  Chen, Zh ^a  

^a SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

convergence; Discontinuous finite element methods; elliptic equations; equivalence; parabolic equations; stability

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; ERROR ANALYSIS; GALERKIN METHODS; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; TENSORS;

DISCONTINOUS FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; ERROR ESTIMATION; PARABOLIC EQUATIONS; SECOND ORDER ELLIPTIC EQUATIONS;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 0034930339     PISSN: 15702820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/JNMA.2001.99     Document Type: Article

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