A discontinuous Galerkin method for elliptic interface problems with application to electroporation

Communications in Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 25, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 991-1008

  Guyomarc'h, Grégory ^a   Lee, Chang Ock ^a   Jeon, Kiwan ^a  

^a Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Discontinuous Galerkin method; Electroporation; Elliptic interface problem; Jump condition; Numerical trace

Indexed keywords

CANCER TREATMENT; DISCONTINUOUS GALERKIN METHODS; DISCRETIZATIONS; DYNAMIC INTERFACE; ELECTROPORATION; ELLIPTIC INTERFACE PROBLEMS; ELLIPTIC PROBLEM; EXACT SOLUTION; FINITE ELEMENT SPACE; INTERFACE PROBLEMS; JUMP CONDITIONS; MEDICAL TECHNIQUES; NORMAL DERIVATIVES; NUMERICAL RESULTS; NUMERICAL STUDIES; STANDARD ALGORITHMS; SYMMETRIC SYSTEMS;

GALERKIN METHODS; GENE THERAPY; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GEOMETRY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 77649104595     PISSN: 10698299     EISSN: 10990887     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cnm.1132     Document Type: Article

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