A recipe to detect the error in discretization schemes

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 59, Issue 15, 2004, Pages 2065-2087

  Lapenta, Giovanni ^a  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Discretization error; Operator recovery error source detector

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; ERROR ANALYSIS; GAS DYNAMICS; PERFORMANCE; POISSON EQUATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; RELIABILITY;

DISCRETIZATION; GAS DYNAMIC EQUATIONS;

ENGINEERING;

ERROR ANALYSIS;

EID: 2442487901     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nme.969     Document Type: Article

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