A new methodology for anisotropic mesh refinement based upon error gradients

Applied Numerical Mathematics

Volumn 50, Issue 3-4, 2004, Pages 329-341

  Apel, Thomas ^a   Grosman, Sergei ^a   Jimack, Peter K ^b   Meyer, Arnd ^a  

^a CHEMNITZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

A posteriori error estimation; Anisotropic refinement; Finite element method

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ANISOTROPY; APPROXIMATION THEORY; ERROR ANALYSIS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GRADIENT METHODS;

A POSTERIORI ERROR ESTIMATION; ANISOTROPIC REFINEMENT; MESH REFINEMENT;

PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;

EID: 3142637302     PISSN: 01689274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apnum.2004.01.006     Document Type: Article

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