Goal-oriented error estimation for Cahn-Hilliard models of binary phase transition

Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 160-196

  Van Der Zee, Kristoffer G ^a   Oden, J Tinsley ^a   Prudhomme, Serge ^a   Hawkins Daarud, Andrea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

a posteriori error estimation; Cahn Hilliard; diffuse interface; dual Cahn Hilliard; dual well posedness; error residual equivalence; goal oriented error analysis; linearized adjoint; quantities of interest

Indexed keywords

NONLINEAR EQUATIONS;

A-POSTERIORI ERROR ESTIMATIONS; ADJOINTS; CAHN-HILLIARD; DIFFUSE INTERFACE; DUAL CAHN-HILLIARD; GOAL-ORIENTED; QUANTITIES OF INTERESTS; WELLPOSEDNESS;

ERRORS;

EID: 78649884402     PISSN: 0749159X     EISSN: 10982426     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/num.20638     Document Type: Article

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