Error control in multi-element generalized polynomial chaos method for elliptic problems with random coefficients

Communications in Computational Physics

Volumn 5, Issue 2-4, 2009, Pages 793-820

  Wan, Xiaoliang ^a   Karniadakis, George Em ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

A posteriorir error estimate; Adaptive numerical methods; Elliptic problems; Stochastic PDE; Uncertainty quantification

Indexed keywords

EID: 60649095419     PISSN: 18152406     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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