Convergence of adaptive finite element methods for general second order linear elliptic PDEs

SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1803-1827

  Mekchay, Khamron ^a   Nochetto, Ricardo H ^a  

^a University of Maryland   (United States)

Author keywords

A posteriori error estimators; Adaptive mesh refinement; Error and oscillation reduction estimates; Optimal meshes; Quasi orthogonality

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MESH REFINEMENT; ERROR AND OSCILLATION REDUCTION ESTIMATES; OPTIMAL MESHES; POSTERIORI ERROR ESTIMATORS; QUASI-ORTHOGONALITY;

CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; ERROR ANALYSIS; LINEAR EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; OSCILLATIONS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 33644998367     PISSN: 00361429     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/04060929X     Document Type: Article

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