A multi-mesh adaptive finite element approximation to phase field models

Communications in Computational Physics

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1012-1029

  Hu, Xianliang ^a,b   Li, Ruo ^c   Tang, Tao ^d  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Adaptive finite element; Local refinement; Multi mesh; Phase field

Indexed keywords

EID: 58249138999     PISSN: 18152406     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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