A convergent adaptive method for elliptic eigenvalue problems

SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 1067-1091

  Giani, S ^a   Graham, I G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adaptive finite element methods; Convergence; Eigenvalues; Second order elliptic problems

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE FINITE ELEMENT METHODS; ADAPTIVE METHODS; ADAPTIVE PROCEDURE; BILINEAR FORM; CONVERGENCE; CONVERGENCE RESULTS; EIGENVALUE PROBLEM; EIGENVALUES; ELLIPTIC EIGENVALUE PROBLEM; ELLIPTIC PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL; FINITE ELEMENT MESHES; LINEAR FINITE ELEMENTS; POSTERIORI ERROR ESTIMATOR; SECOND ORDERS; SECOND-ORDER ELLIPTIC PROBLEM; WEAK FORM;

ERROR ANALYSIS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; SWITCHING SYSTEMS;

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS;

EID: 67650028812     PISSN: 00361429     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/070697264     Document Type: Article

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