An Adaptive Finite Element Method for Steady and Transient Problems

DOI10.1137/0908050zbMath0626.65130OpenAlexW1971151244MaRDI QIDQ3030211

L. E. Scriven, H. Ted Davis, R. E. jun. Benner

Publication date: 1987

Published in: SIAM Journal on Scientific and Statistical Computing (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1137/0908050

zbMATH Keywords

finite element methodNewton's methoderror equidistributionshock frontsadaptive elementsBuckley-Leverett theory of two-phase Darcy flow in porous mediagradient theory of fluid wetting on a solid surfacesteady convection with diffusionthin-film states at solid wallsvariable subdomains

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Flows in porous media; filtration; seepage (76S05) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N30) Free convection (76R10) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M60) Mesh generation, refinement, and adaptive methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N50) Partial differential equations of mathematical physics and other areas of application (35Q99) Applications to the sciences (65Z05) Mesh generation, refinement, and adaptive methods for the numerical solution of initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M50)

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