Superconvergence of a discontinuous Galerkin method for fractional diffusion and wave equations

SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 491-515

  Mustapha, Kassem ^a   McLean, William ^b  

^a KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS   (Saudi Arabia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Dual problem; Finite elements; Postprocessing

Indexed keywords

CONFORMING FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; DISCONTINUOUS GALERKIN METHODS; DUAL PROBLEM; FINITE ELEMENT; INITIAL-BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS; LAGRANGE INTERPOLATIONS; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; POSTPROCESSING;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; INITIAL VALUE PROBLEMS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PIECEWISE LINEAR TECHNIQUES;

GALERKIN METHODS;

EID: 84876136167     PISSN: 00361429     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/120880719     Document Type: Article

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