Stabilized finite elements on anisotropic meshes: A priori error estimates for the advection-diffusion and the stokes problems

SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 1131-1162

  Micheletti, Stefano ^a   Perotto, Simona ^a   Picasso, Marco ^b  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Advection diffusion problems; Anisotropic error estimates; Stabilized finite elements; Stokes problem

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; APPROXIMATION THEORY; DIFFUSION; ERROR ANALYSIS; GALERKIN METHODS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBLEM SOLVING;

ADVECTION DIFFUSION PROBLEMS; ANISOTROPIC ERROR ESTIMATES; STABILIZED ELEMENTS; STOKES PROBLEMS;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 3142737182     PISSN: 00361429     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/S0036142902403759     Document Type: Article

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