An Immersed Finite Element Space and Its Approximation Capability

Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 338-367

  Li, Z ^a   Lin, T ^b   Lin, Y ^c   Rogers, R C ^b  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Error estimates; Finite element; Immersed interface; Interface problems

Indexed keywords

EID: 2342455894     PISSN: 0749159X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/num.10092     Document Type: Article

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