Convergence of a continuous Galerkin method with mesh modification for nonlinear wave equations

DOI10.1090/S0025-5718-04-01654-0zbMath1057.65066MaRDI QIDQ4821040

Ohannes A. Karakashian, Charalambos G. Makridakis

Publication date: 7 October 2004

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

zbMATH Keywords

optimal order convergence; error estimates in the energy norm; mesh-modification; semilinear hyperbolic equations of second order; Space-time continuous Galerkin method

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

35L70: Second-order nonlinear hyperbolic equations

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

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

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