A finite element method for elliptic equations on surfaces

SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 3339-3358

  Olshanskii, Maxim A ^a   Reusken, Arnold ^b   Grande, Jörg ^b  

^a MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Finite element; Interface; Level set method; Marangoni; Surface; Two phase flow

Indexed keywords

DISCRETIZATIONS; ELEMENT SPACE; ELLIPTIC EQUATIONS; FINITE ELEMENT; INTERFACE; L2-NORM; LEVEL SET METHOD; MARANGONI; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; OPTIMAL ORDER OF CONVERGENCE; OPTIMALITY; OUTER DOMAIN;

DROP BREAKUP; FLUID DYNAMICS; LEVEL MEASUREMENT; PHASE INTERFACES; SET THEORY; TWO PHASE FLOW;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 70350169333     PISSN: 00361429     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/080717602     Document Type: Article

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