New approaches for error estimation and adaptivity for 2D potential boundary element methods

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 117-144

  Jorge, Ariosto B ^a,b   Ribeiro, Gabriel O ^c   Fisher, Timothy S ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF ITAJUBÁ   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptivity; Boundary element methods (BEM); Error estimators; Feasible point method; Gradient recovery; Lagrange multipliers; Nonlinear programming; Optimization

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; OPTIMIZATION;

EXTERNAL PROBLEM FORMULATION; GRADIENT RECOVERY PROCEDURE;

BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD;

BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 0037422638     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nme.559     Document Type: Article

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