Numerical analysis of a steepest-descent pde model for surface relaxation below the roughening temperature

SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1781-1800

  Kohn, R V ^a   Versieux, H M ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Crystal growth; Galerkin approximation; H 1 steepest descent; Mixed finite element methods; Surface relaxation

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL SURFACES; DISCRETIZATIONS; FLAT FACETS; FOURTH ORDER; GALERKIN APPROXIMATIONS; GRADIENT FLOW; INNER PRODUCT; MIXED FINITE ELEMENT APPROXIMATION; MIXED FINITE ELEMENT METHODS; NON-SMOOTH; NUMERICAL SCHEME; NUMERICAL SOLUTION; PDE MODEL; PRIMAL-DUAL METHODS; ROUGHENING TEMPERATURE; STEEPEST DESCENT;

CRYSTAL GROWTH; CRYSTALLIZATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GALERKIN METHODS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; SURFACE RELAXATION;

STEEPEST DESCENT METHOD;

EID: 78649944927     PISSN: 00361429     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/090750378     Document Type: Article

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