Guaranteed computable bounds on quantities of interest in finite element computations

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 89, Issue 13, 2012, Pages 1605-1634

  Ainsworth, Mark ^a   Rankin, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

A posteriori error estimation; Guaranteed error bounds; Quantities of interest

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE APPROACH; ARBITRARY ORDER; DIRICHLET BOUNDARY CONDITION; DIRICHLET DATA; EFFECTIVITY INDEX; ERROR BOUND; FINITE ELEMENT APPROXIMATIONS; FINITE ELEMENT COMPUTATIONS; MULTIPLICATIVE FACTORS; NON-HOMOGENEOUS; NUMERICAL EXAMPLE; POSTERIORI ERROR ESTIMATION; QUANTITIES OF INTEREST; QUANTITY OF INTEREST; SECOND-ORDER ELLIPTIC PROBLEM; TIGHT BOUND;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS;

ERROR ANALYSIS;

EID: 84857478230     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: 10970207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nme.3276     Document Type: Article

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