Fully localized a posteriori error estimators and barrier sets for contact problems

SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 2118-2135

  Nochetto, Ricardo H ^a   Siebert, Kunibert G ^b   Veeser, Andreas ^c  

^a Bldg 142   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUGSBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

A posteriori error estimate; Barrier functions; Barrier sets; Elliptic obstacle problem; Maximum norm; Maximum principle; Residual; Stable free boundary

Indexed keywords

A POSTERIORI ERROR ESTIMATE; BARRIER FUNCTIONS; BARRIER SETS; ELLIPTIC OBSTACLE PROBLEM; MAXIMUM NORM; RESIDUAL; STABLE FREE BOUNDARY;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; RELIABILITY; SET THEORY;

ERROR ANALYSIS;

EID: 27744463727     PISSN: 00361429     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/S0036142903424404     Document Type: Article

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