Sharp L2-error estimates and superconvergence of mixed finite element methods for non-fickian flows in porous media

SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 1538-1560

  Ewing, Richard E ^a   Lin, Yanping ^b   Sun, Tong ^c   Wang, Junping ^d   Zhang, Shuhua ^e,f  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering   (United States)

^e TIANJIN UNIVERSITY OF FINANCE AND ECONOMICS   (China)

^f NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Error estimates; Mixed finite element methods; Mixed Ritz Volterra projection; Non Fickian flow; Superconvergence

Indexed keywords

CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; ERROR ANALYSIS; FLOW OF FLUIDS; INTERPOLATION; POROUS MATERIALS;

NON-FICKIAN FLOWS;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 0141869059     PISSN: 00361429     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/S0036142900378406     Document Type: Article

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