A local problem error estimator for anisotropic tetrahedral finite element meshes

SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 668-689

  Kunert, Gerd ^a  

^a CHEMNITZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anisotropic solution; Error estimator; Finite elements; Robin boundary condition; Stretched elements; Tetrahedral mesh

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035322537     PISSN: 00361429     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/S003614299935615X     Document Type: Article

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