On the efficiency of adaptive finite element methods for elliptic problems with discontinuous coefficients

SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 443-462

  Chen, Zhiming ^a   Dai, Shibin ^b  

^a CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^b Bldg 142   (United States)

Author keywords

A posteriori error estimators; Adaptive algorithm; Performance

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE ALGORITHMS; ERROR ANALYSIS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; PROBLEM SOLVING;

ERROR ESTIMATION;

NATURAL SCIENCES COMPUTING;

EID: 0037246541     PISSN: 10648275     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/S1064827501383713     Document Type: Article

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