Optimal convergence of the original DG method for the transport-reaction equation on special meshes

SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1250-1265

  Cockburn, Bernardo ^a   Dong, Bo ^a   Guzmán, Johnny ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Discontinuous Galerkin methods; Error estimates; Transport reaction equation

Indexed keywords

D SPACES; DG METHODS; DISCONTINUOUS GALERKIN METHODS; ERROR ESTIMATES; OPTIMAL CONVERGENCES; OUTFLOW FACES; POST-PROCESSING; REACTION EQUATIONS; TRANSPORT-REACTION EQUATION;

CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; POLYNOMIAL APPROXIMATION;

GALERKIN METHODS;

EID: 55349115765     PISSN: 00361429     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/060677215     Document Type: Article

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