A posteriori error estimation and adaptive solution of elliptic variational inequalities of the second kind

Applied Numerical Mathematics

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 13-38

  Bostan, Viorel ^a   Han, Weimin ^a   Reddy, B D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

A posteriori error estimation; Adaptive finite element solution; Duality; Efficiency; Elliptic variational inequality

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS; EFFICIENCY; ERROR ANALYSIS; FLUID MECHANICS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PROBLEM SOLVING; VIBRATIONS (MECHANICAL); VISCOPLASTICITY;

A POSTERIORI ERROR ESTIMATION; ADAPTIVE FINITE ELEMENT SOLUTION; DUALITY; ELLIPTIC VARIATIONAL INEQUALITY;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 9544244784     PISSN: 01689274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apnum.2004.06.012     Document Type: Article

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