Pointwise error estimates of discontinuous Galerkin methods with penalty for second-order elliptic problems

SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 1146-1166

  Chen, Zhangxin ^a,b   Chen, Hongsen ^c  

^a XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

Discontinuous Galerkin method; Elliptic problem; Pointwise error estimate

Indexed keywords

DISCONTINUOUS GALERKIN METHOD; ELLIPTIC PROBLEM; POINTWISE ERROR ESTIMATE; QUASI-UNIFORM GRIDS;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; ERROR ANALYSIS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; THEOREM PROVING;

GALERKIN METHODS;

EID: 21244475648     PISSN: 00361429     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/S0036142903421527     Document Type: Article

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