Error estimation of a class of quadratic immersed finite element methods for elliptic interface problems

Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series B

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 807-823

  Lin, Tao ^a   Lin, Yanping ^b   Sun, Weiwei ^c  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Elliptic; Error estimates; Immersed finite element method; Interface; Jump condition

Indexed keywords

EID: 34250821173     PISSN: 15313492     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3934/dcdsb.2007.7.807     Document Type: Article

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