A block finite difference scheme for second-order elliptic problems with discontinuous coefficients

SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 686-706

  Shen, Jian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Elliptic boundary value problems; Finite difference scheme; Mixed finite element methods

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041451409     PISSN: 00361429     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/0733035     Document Type: Article

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