An a posteriori error estimator for two-body contact problems on non-matching meshes

Journal of Scientific Computing

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 25-45

  Wohlmuth, Barbara I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

A posteriori error estimates; Contact problems; Equilibrated fluxes; Mixed finite elements; Mortar methods; Non matching meshes

Indexed keywords

A POSTERIORI ERROR ESTIMATES; CONTACT PROBLEMS; EQUILIBRATED FLUXES; MORTAR METHODS; NON-MATCHING MESHES;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; ERROR ANALYSIS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS;

PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 34548449391     PISSN: 08857474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10915-007-9139-7     Document Type: Article

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