A Priori Error Analysis for the hp-Version of the Discontinuous Galerkin Finite Element Method for the Biharmonic Equation

Computational Methods in Applied Mathematics

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 596-607

  Mozolevski, Igor ^a   Süli, Endre ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SANTA CATARINA   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

biharmonic equation; discontinuous Galerkin methods; thin plate theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 85014044188     PISSN: 16094840     EISSN: 16099389     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2478/cmam-2003-0037     Document Type: Article

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