Composite finite elements for elliptic boundary value problems with discontinuous coefficients

Computing (Vienna/New York)

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 29-55

  Sauter, S A ^a,b   Warnke, R ^a,c  

^a Universität Zürich ^*

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c MSG SYSTEMS AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Boundary values problems; Composite finite elements; Discontinuous coefficients; Multigrid methods

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITE FINITE ELEMENTS; DISCONTINUOUS COEFFICIENTS; INTERGRID TRANSFER OPERATORS; MULTIGRID METHODS;

EXTRAPOLATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GEOMETRY; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; LINEAR SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; NUMERICAL METHODS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS;

EID: 32544450819     PISSN: 0010485X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00607-005-0150-2     Document Type: Article

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