A posteriori error estimates for the Crank-Nicolson method for parabolic equations

Mathematics of Computation

Volumn 75, Issue 254, 2006, Pages 511-531

  Akrivis, Georgios ^a   Makridakis, Charalambos ^b,c   Nochetto, Ricardo H ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^c INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Greece)

^d Bldg 142   (United States)

Author keywords

A posteriori error analysis; Crank Nicolson method; Crank Nicolson reconstruction; Crank Nicolson Galerkin method; Crank Nicolson Galerkin reconstruction; Parabolic equations

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646387729     PISSN: 00255718     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1090/S0025-5718-05-01800-4     Document Type: Article

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