A posteriori error analysis for the mean curvature flow of graphs

SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1875-1898

  Lakkis, Omar ^a   Nochetto, Ricardo H ^b  

^a Institute for Applied and Computational Mathematics   (Greece)

^b Bldg 142   (United States)

Author keywords

A posteriori; Convergence; Effectivity index; Efficiency; Error analysis; Finite element; Geometric motion; Mean curvature; Nonlinear PDE; Parabolic equation; Reliability; Sharp estimates

Indexed keywords

A POSTERIORI; EFFECTIVITY INDEX; GEOMETRIC MOTION; MEAN CURVATURE; PARABOLIC EQUATION; SHARP ESTIMATES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISCRETE TIME CONTROL SYSTEMS; ERROR ANALYSIS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS;

EQUATIONS OF MOTION;

EID: 27744530591     PISSN: 00361429     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/S0036142903430207     Document Type: Article

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