The extended finite element method for boundary layer problems in biofilm growth

DOI10.2140/camcos.2007.2.35zbMath1131.65092MaRDI QIDQ2466429

Bryan Gerard Smith, Benjamin Leroy jun. Vaughan, David L. Chopp

Publication date: 14 January 2008

Published in: Communications in Applied Mathematics and Computational Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2140/camcos.2007.2.35

zbMATH Keywords

numerical examples; discontinuous coefficients; elliptic equations; Helmholtz equation; level set method; extended finite element method; biofilms; X-FEM

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

35J25: Boundary value problems for second-order elliptic equations

65N30: Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs

35R05: PDEs with low regular coefficients and/or low regular data

92B05: General biology and biomathematics

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