On a direct approach to adaptive FE-discretisations for elliptic variational inequalities

Journal of Numerical Mathematics

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 73-80

  Suttmeier, F T ^a  

^a TU DORTMUND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

A posteriori error estimate; Adaptivity; Contact problem; Finite element method; Obstacle problem; Variational inequality

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; LINEAR EQUATIONS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

A POSTERIORI ERROR ESTIMATE; ADAPTIVITY; CONTACT PROBLEM; OBSTACLE PROBLEM; VARIATIONAL INEQUALITY;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 27544469408     PISSN: 15702820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/1569395054068991     Document Type: Article

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