Effective condition number for the finite element method using local mesh refinements

Applied Numerical Mathematics

Volumn 59, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1779-1795

  Li, Zi Cai ^a,b   Huang, Hung Tsai ^c  

^a NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b CHUNG HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c I SHOU UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Condition number; Effective condition number; Finite element method; Local refinements; Singularity problem

Indexed keywords

A STABILITIES; ADAPTIVE MESH REFINEMENTS; CONDITION NUMBER; EFFECTIVE CONDITION NUMBER; FEM SOLUTIONS; FINITE-ELEMENT METHODS; LOCAL MESH REFINEMENTS; LOCAL REFINEMENTS; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; OPTIMAL CONVERGENCES; POISSON'S EQUATIONS; SINGULAR POINTS; SINGULARITY PROBLEM; STABILITY ANALYSIS;

ALGEBRA; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; NUMBER THEORY; POISSON EQUATION; PROBLEM SOLVING;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 67349217684     PISSN: 01689274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apnum.2009.01.006     Document Type: Article

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