Stability of discretizations of the Stokes problem on anisotropic meshes

Mathematics and Computers in Simulation

Volumn 61, Issue 3-6, 2003, Pages 437-447

  Apel, Thomas ^a   Randrianarivony, H Maharavo ^a  

^a CHEMNITZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anisotropic mesh; Edge singularity; Stable discretization; Stokes problem

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; APPROXIMATION THEORY; ASPECT RATIO; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

ANISOTROPIC MESHES;

VISCOUS FLOW;

EID: 0037472494     PISSN: 03784754     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4754(02)00098-8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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