Efficient and reliable hierarchical error estimates for the discretization error of elliptic obstacle problems

Mathematics of Computation

Volumn 80, Issue 273, 2010, Pages 69-88

  Kornhuber, Ralf ^a   Zou, Qingsong ^b  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b University of Guang Zhou   (China)

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EID: 78649369253     PISSN: 00255718     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1090/S0025-5718-2010-02394-4     Document Type: Article

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