A family of rectangular mixed elements with a continuous flux for second order elliptic problems

SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1914-1931

  Arbogast, Todd ^a   Wheeler, Mary F ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

Continuous flux; Elliptic equation; Error estimates; Mixed finite element method

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS FLUX; ELLIPTIC EQUATION; ERROR ESTIMATES; MIXED FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; DATA ACQUISITION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; VECTORS;

PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 27744482072     PISSN: 00361429     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/S0036142903435247     Document Type: Article

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