Numerical approximation for the mean curvature flow with nucleation using implicit time-stepping: An adaptive algorithm

Calcolo

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 205-224

  Fierro, Francesca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION ALGORITHMS; NUCLEATION;

ANISOTROPIC EVOLUTION; DISCRETIZATION SCHEME; FINITE ELEMENT ALGORITHMS; GENERALISATION; ISOTROPIC EVOLUTION; MEAN CURVATURE FLOW; NUMERICAL APPROXIMATIONS; SELF ADAPTIVE FINITE ELEMENTS; TIME DISCRETIZATION; TIME-STEPPING;

ADAPTIVE ALGORITHMS;

EID: 0042756414     PISSN: 00080624     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s100920050017     Document Type: Article

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