A coupling of mixed and discontinuous Galerkin finite-element methods for poroelasticity

Computational Geosciences

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 417-435

  Phillips, Phillip Joseph ^a   Wheeler, Mary F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Apriori error estimates; Discontinuous Galerkin; Locking; Mixed finite elements; Poroelasticity

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; ELASTICITY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FLUID MECHANICS; GALERKIN METHODS; POROSITY;

ALGORITHM; BIOT THEORY; ESTIMATION METHOD; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GALERKIN METHOD; NUMERICAL METHOD; POROELASTICITY;

EID: 56449092106     PISSN: 14200597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10596-008-9082-1     Document Type: Article

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