Reliability and efficiency of an anisotropic Zienkiewicz-Zhu error estimator

Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering

Volumn 195, Issue 9-12, 2006, Pages 799-835

  Micheletti, Stefano ^a   Perotto, Simona ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Anisotropic mesh adaption; Efficiency; Finite elements; Recovery based error estimators; Reliability

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS; ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GRADIENT METHODS; INTERPOLATION; POISSON EQUATION; RELIABILITY;

ANISOTROPIC MESH ADAPTATION; RECOVERY-BASED ERROR ESTIMATORS; ZIENKIEWICZ-ZHU RECOVERY PROCEDURE;

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 28444459232     PISSN: 00457825     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cma.2005.02.009     Document Type: Article

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