An anisotropic error indicator based on Zienkiewicz-Zhu error estimator: Application to elliptic and parabolic problems

SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1328-1355

  Picasso, M ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Adaptive finite elements; Anisotropic a posteriori error estimates

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE ALGORITHMS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; INTERPOLATION; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PROBLEM SOLVING;

ERROR ESTIMATES;

ERROR ANALYSIS;

EID: 0042931313     PISSN: 10648275     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/S1064827501398578     Document Type: Article

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