A model study of the quality of a posteriori error estimators for finite element solutions of linear elliptic problems, with particular reference to the behavior near the boundary

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 40, Issue 14, 1997, Pages 2571-2577

  Babuska I ^a   Strouboulis, T ^b   Upadhyay, C S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

A posteriori error estimation; Asymptotic quality; Computer based analysis; Effect of the boundary; Finite element method

Indexed keywords

EID: 3943068360     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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