An Error Indicator Monitor Function for an r-Adaptive Finite-Element Method

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 170, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 871-892

  Cao, Weiming ^a   Huang, Weizhang ^b   Russell, Robert D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^c SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

A posteriori error estimate; Adaptive finite element method; Mesh adaptation; Moving mesh method

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; MESH GENERATION; NUMERICAL METHODS;

A-POSTERIORI ERROR ESTIMATES; ADAPTIVE FINITE ELEMENT METHODS; ELLIPTIC EQUATIONS; ERROR INDICATORS; MESH ADAPTATION; MONITOR FUNCTIONS; MOVING MESH; MOVING MESH METHOD; NUMERICAL RESULTS; TEMPORAL DISCRETIZATION;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 0037581112     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jcph.2001.6770     Document Type: Article

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