A mortar finite element approximation for the linear Poisson-Boltzmann equation

Applied Mathematics and Computation

Volumn 164, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 11-23

  Wenbin, Chen ^a   Yifan, Shen ^a   Qing, Xia ^a  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Artificial boundary; Fundamental solution; Mortar finite element; Poisson Boltzmann equation

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; POISSON EQUATION;

ARTIFICIAL BOUNDARIES; FUNDAMENTAL SOLUTIONS; MORTAR FINITE ELEMENT; POISSON-BOLTZMANN EQUATION;

APPROXIMATION THEORY;

EID: 14844357735     PISSN: 00963003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amc.2004.04.058     Document Type: Article

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