Failure of the discrete maximum principle for an elliptic finite element problem

DOI10.1090/S0025-5718-04-01651-5zbMath1074.65129OpenAlexW2065429647MaRDI QIDQ4821037

L. Ridgway Scott, Todd F. Dupont, Andrei Drăgănescu

Publication date: 7 October 2004

Published in: Mathematics of Computation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1090/s0025-5718-04-01651-5

zbMATH Keywords

Dirichlet problemfinite elementLaplace equationdiscrete maximum principlemesh refinementdiscrete Green's functiondiscrete harmonic functionsboundary maximum principle

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stability and convergence of numerical methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N12) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N30) Laplace operator, Helmholtz equation (reduced wave equation), Poisson equation (35J05) Mesh generation, refinement, and adaptive methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N50)

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