On the Error of Linear Interpolation and the Orientation, Aspect Ratio, and Internal Angles of a Triangle

DOI10.1137/S0036142903433492zbMath1092.65006MaRDI QIDQ5700256

Weiming Cao

Publication date: 28 October 2005

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

zbMATH Keywords

finite element method; numerical examples; optimal mesh design; aspect ratio; linear interpolation; maximum angle condition; interpolation error; anisotropic mesh; mesh alignment

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

65N15: Error bounds for boundary value problems involving PDEs

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

65D05: Numerical interpolation

65N50: Mesh generation, refinement, and adaptive methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs

65L50: Mesh generation, refinement, and adaptive methods for ordinary differential equations

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