A note on the optimal L2-estimate of the finite volume element method

Advances in Computational Mathematics

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 291-303

  Chen, Zhongying ^a   Li, Ronghua ^b   Zhou, Aihui ^c  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b JILIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF COMPUTATIONAL MATHEMATICS AND SCIENTIFIC ENGINEERING COMPUTING   (China)

Author keywords

Elliptic problem; Finite volume method; Optimal estimate

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036112296     PISSN: 10197168     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1014577215948     Document Type: Article

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