The sdfem for a convection-diffusion problem with a boundary layer: Optimal error analysis and enhancement of accuracy

SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1620-1642

  Stynes, Martin ^a   Tobiska, Lutz ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^b OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Convection diffusion problems; Error estimates; Finite elements; Streamline diffusion method

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; BOUNDARY LAYERS; ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PROBLEM SOLVING;

BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEM; CONVECTION-DIFFUSION PROBLEMS; ERROR ESTIMATION; STREAMLINE-DIFFUSION METHOD;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 9244236533     PISSN: 00361429     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/S0036142902404728     Document Type: Conference Paper

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