Solving PDES in complex geometries: A diffuse domain approach

Communications in Mathematical Sciences

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 81-107

  Li, X ^a   Lowengrub, J ^a   Räatz, Andreas ^b   Voigt, Axel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adaptive finite difference methods; Adaptive finite element methods; Complex geometry; Diffuse interface; Multigrid methods; Partial differential equations; Phase field approximation

Indexed keywords

EID: 64549103448     PISSN: 15396746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4310/CMS.2009.v7.n1.a4     Document Type: Article

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