Numerical study of the HP version of mixed discontinuous finite element methods for reaction-diffusion problems: The 1D case

Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 525-553

  Chen, Hongsen ^a   Chen, Zhangxin ^b   Li, Baoyan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^b SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hp version; Mixed discontinuous finite element methods; Numerical results; Optimal error estimates; Reaction diffusion problems; Stability

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038271897     PISSN: 0749159X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/num.10063     Document Type: Article

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