A numerical method for solving variable coefficient elliptic equation with interfaces

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 202, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 411-445

  Hou, Songming ^a   Liu, Xu Dong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Elliptic equation; Jump conditions; Non smooth interface; Weak formulation

Indexed keywords

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

BODY FITTING; ELLIPTIC EQUATIONS; JUMP CONDITIONS; LIPSCHITZ CONTINUOUS; NON-SMOOTH INTERFACE; SMOOTH INTERFACE; SOURCE TERMS; SUBDOMAIN; VARIABLE COEFFICIENTS; WEAK FORMULATION;

NUMERICAL METHODS;

EID: 10244254997     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2004.07.016     Document Type: Article

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