Locally conservative fluxes for the continuous Galerkin method

SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1742-1776

  Cockburn, Bernardo ^a   Gopalakrishnan, Jayadeep ^b   Wang, Haiying ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Conforming finite element method; Conservation; Continuous Galerkin methods; Elliptic problems; Hybridization

Indexed keywords

A-PRIORI; APPLICATIONS.; ASYMPTOTICALLY OPTIMAL; CG METHODS; CONFORMING FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; CONSERVATION; CONTINUOUS GALERKIN METHODS; DISCONTINUOUS GALERKIN METHODS; ELEMENT-BY-ELEMENT; ELLIPTIC PROBLEMS; FINITE-ELEMENT METHODS; GALERKIN; HANGING NODES; HYBRIDIZATION; MESH SIZES; MIXED METHODS; NON LOCAL; NORMAL COMPONENTS; NUMERICAL EVIDENCE; NUMERICAL FLUXES; POSITIVE DEFINITE; SECOND ORDER ELLIPTIC PROBLEMS; STANDARD FORM;

ERROR ANALYSIS; FLUXES; GALERKIN METHODS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; POLYNOMIAL APPROXIMATION; STANDARDS; TRACE ELEMENTS;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 49449110062     PISSN: 00361429     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/060666305     Document Type: Article

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