Finite Element Approximation of the Fast Diffusion and the Porous Medium Equations

DOI10.1137/060657728zbMath1176.65105MaRDI QIDQ3642885

Carsten Ebmeyer, Wen-bin Liu

Publication date: 6 November 2009

Published in: SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1137/060657728

zbMATH Keywords

convergence; error estimates; finite elements; free boundary problem; porous media; a priori error estimates; fast diffusion; slow diffusion; backward Euler time discretization; fully discrete Galerkin scheme

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

76S05: Flows in porous media; filtration; seepage

65M12: Stability and convergence of numerical methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs

76M10: Finite element methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics

65M60: Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs

65M15: Error bounds for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs

35K61: Nonlinear initial, boundary and initial-boundary value problems for nonlinear parabolic equations

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