A Nonconforming Mixed Finite Element for Second-Order Elliptic Problems

Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 445-457

  Farhloul, Mohamed ^a   Fortin, Michel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONCTON   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Nonconforming mixed nite elements; Nonconforming piecewise quadratic approximations; Second order elliptic problems

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347454676     PISSN: 0749159X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2426(199709)13:5<445::AID-NUM1>3.0.CO;2-J     Document Type: Article

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