Numerical homogenization of monotone elliptic operators

Multiscale Modeling and Simulation

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 62-79

  Efendiev, Yalchin ^a   Pankov, Alexander ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Dept of Economics and Thomas Jefferson Program in Public Policy at the College of William and Mary   (United States)

Author keywords

Finite element; Homogenization; Monotone; Multiscale; Random

Indexed keywords

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HOMOGENIZATION METHOD; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

CONVERGENCE THEORY; MONOTONE; MULTISCALE; MULTISCALE FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; NON-LINEAR ELLIPTIC EQUATION; NUMERICAL HOMOGENIZATION; NUMERICAL PROCEDURES; RANDOM;

NONLINEAR EQUATIONS;

EID: 34548555443     PISSN: 15403459     EISSN: 15403467     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/S1540345903421611     Document Type: Article

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