Weakened acute type condition for tetrahedral triangulations and the discrete maximum principle

Mathematics of Computation

Volumn 70, Issue 233, 2001, Pages 107-119

  Korotov, Sergey ^a   Křížek, Michal ^b   Neittaanmäki, Pekka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^b INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Linear tetrahedral finite element; Maximum principle; Poisson equation; Weakened acute type condition

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039248648     PISSN: 00255718     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1090/s0025-5718-00-01270-9     Document Type: Article

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