Error analysis for characteristics-based methods for degenerate parabolic problems

SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 1491-1515

  Chen, Zhangxin ^a   Ewing, Richard E ^b   Jiang, Qiaoyuan ^a   Spagnuolo, Anna M ^b  

^a SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Advection Diffusion equations; Characteristics Based finite elements; Degeneracy; Error estimates

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GALERKIN METHODS;

DEGENERACY;

PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 0141645575     PISSN: 00361429     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/S003614290037068X     Document Type: Article

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