A multiscale mortar mixed finite element method

Multiscale Modeling and Simulation

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 319-346

  Arbogast, Todd ^a   Pencheva, Gergina ^b   Wheeler, Mary F ^a   Yotov, Ivan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

A posteriori; Error estimates; Mixed finite element; Mortar finite element; Multiblock; Multiscale; Nonmatching grids; Superconvergence

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; MESH GENERATION; MORTAR; NUMERICAL METHODS; POLYNOMIAL APPROXIMATION;

A POSTERIORI ERROR ESTIMATOR; ADAPTIVE MESH REFINEMENT ALGORITHM; MIXED FINITE ELEMENT;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 39549092855     PISSN: 15403459     EISSN: 15403467     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/060662587     Document Type: Article

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