Analysis and computation of a least-squares method for consistent mesh tying

Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics

Volumn 218, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 21-33

  Day, David ^a   Bochev, Pavel ^a  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Finite elements; First order elliptic systems; Least squares; Mesh tying

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS;

FIRST ORDER ELLIPTIC SYSTEMS; INTERFACE PERTURBATIONS;

LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS;

EID: 44449114111     PISSN: 03770427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cam.2007.04.049     Document Type: Article

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