A combined spectral element/finite element approach to the numerical solution of a nonlinear evolution equation describing amorphous surface growth of thin films

DOI10.1515/JNMA.2002.127zbMath1004.65099OpenAlexW1975681613MaRDI QIDQ3150244

E. M. Nash, Ronald H. W. Hoppe

Publication date: 16 February 2003

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/jnma.2002.127

zbMATH Keywords

finite elementsspectral elementsnumerical solutionmolecular beam epitaxyamorphous surface growthdeposition of thin films

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Phase transformations in solids (74N99) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M60) Spectral, collocation and related methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M70)

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