The h-p version of the finite element method. II. General results and applications (Q1097087)

The authors propose to study the properties of convergence of the finite element method when refining simultaneously the mesh (h) and the degree of the polynomial (p). Particular results, for special meshes and domains, are derived in part 1. In part 2 the results are generalized for curved domains and numerical experiments are presented. The main result of the articles is to show that the error of the (h-p) finite element approximation decays exponentially, the exponent being some power of the number of degrees of freedom of the system.