Global superconvergence of Adini's elements coupled with the Trefftz method for singular problems

Engineering Analysis with Boundary Elements

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 227-240

  Huang, Hung Tsai ^a   Li, Zi Cai ^a  

^a NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Adini's element; Coupling method; Global superconvergence; Motz's problem; Neumann problem; Singular problem; Trefftz method

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; ERRORS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; INTERPOLATION; POISSON EQUATION;

BOUNDARY APPROXIMATION METHOD (BAM); ELLIPTIC EQUATIONS;

BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 0037369072     PISSN: 09557997     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0955-7997(02)00136-4     Document Type: Article

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