A new anisotropic mesh adaptation method based upon hierarchical a posteriori error estimates

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 229, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 2179-2198

  Huang, Weizhang ^a   Kamenski, Lennard ^b   Lang, Jens ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

A posteriori estimators; Anisotropic mesh; Finite elements; Mesh adaptation

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; ERRORS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; ITERATIVE METHODS; MESH GENERATION;

A POSTERIORI ESTIMATOR; A-POSTERIORI ERROR ESTIMATES; ADAPTATION METHODS; ANISOTROPIC MESH ADAPTATION; ANISOTROPIC MESHES; FINITE ELEMENT; MESH ADAPTATION; MESH ADAPTATION STRATEGY; NUMERICAL RESULTS; POSTERIORI ESTIMATORS;

HEAT CONDUCTION;

EID: 73649126477     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2009.11.029     Document Type: Article

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