Anisotropic finite elements for the Stokes problem: A posteriori error estimator and adaptive mesh

Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics

Volumn 169, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 255-275

  Randrianarivony, Maharavo ^a  

^a CHEMNITZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adaptive mesh; Anisotropic mesh; Error estimator; Stokes problem; Strengthened Cauchy

Indexed keywords

CAUCHY CONSTANT; HIERARCHICAL SPACE SPLITTING;

ASPECT RATIO; CRACK INITIATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

ANISOTROPIC MEDIUM; MATHEMATICAL METHOD;

EID: 4444251778     PISSN: 03770427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cam.2003.12.025     Document Type: Article

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