Convergence of adaptive finite element methods

SIAM Review

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 631-658

  Morin, Pedro ^a   Nochetto, Ricardo H ^b   Siebert, Kunibert G ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DEL LITORAL   (Argentina)

^b Bldg 142   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

A posteriori error estimators; Adaptive mesh refinement; Convergence; Data oscillation; Stokes problem; Uzawa iterations

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; ERROR ANALYSIS; ERROR COMPENSATION; ITERATIVE METHODS; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; THEOREM PROVING;

A POSTERIORI ERROR ESTIMATORS; ADAPTIVE FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; ADAPTIVE MESH REFINEMENT; DATA OSCILLATION; STOKES PROBLEM; UZAWA ITERATIONS;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 0036959161     PISSN: 00361445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/S0036144502409093     Document Type: Article

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