Superconvergence and extrapolation of non-conforming low order finite elements applied to the Poisson equation

IMA Journal of Numerical Analysis

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 160-181

  Lin, Qun ^a   Tobiska, Lutz ^b   Zhou, Aihui ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF COMPUTATIONAL MATHEMATICS AND SCIENTIFIC ENGINEERING COMPUTING   (China)

^b OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Extrapolation; Non conforming finite elements; Postprocessing; Superconvergence

Indexed keywords

EXTRAPOLATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; INTERPOLATION; PIECEWISE LINEAR TECHNIQUES;

DISCRETIZATION ERRORS; EXTRAPOLATION TECHNIQUES; FINITE ELEMENT SOLUTION; LOW-ORDER FINITE ELEMENTS; NONCONFORMING FINITE ELEMENT; POST-PROCESSING TECHNIQUES; POSTPROCESSING; SUPER-CONVERGENCE;

POISSON EQUATION;

EID: 11444257287     PISSN: 02724979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/imanum/drh008     Document Type: Article

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