Analysis of a nonsymmetric discontinuous galerkin method for elliptic problems: Stability and energy error estimates

SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 252-264

  Larson, Mats G ^a   Niklasson, A Jonas ^a  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Discontinuous Galerkin method; Elliptic problem; Energy norm; Error estimates; Nonsymmetric discontinuous Galerkin method; Stability

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; POLYNOMIALS; PROBLEM SOLVING; STABILITY; TRIANGULATION;

DISCONTINUOUS GALERKIN METHOD; ELLIPTIC PROBLEM; ENERGY NORM; ERROR ESTIMATES; NONSYMMETRIC DISCONTINOUS GALERKIN METHOD;

GALERKIN METHODS;

EID: 20144379008     PISSN: 00361429     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/S0036142902413160     Document Type: Article

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