From finite differences to finite elements. A short history of numerical analysis of partial differential equations

DOI10.1016/S0377-0427(00)00507-0zbMath0977.65001OpenAlexW1535382688MaRDI QIDQ5931470

Vidar Thomée

Publication date: 3 January 2002

Published in: Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/s0377-0427(00)00507-0

zbMATH Keywords

stabilityfinite elementshistoryerror boundsfinite difference methodsboundary element methodscollocationelliptic partial differential equations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Spectral, collocation and related methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N35) Boundary value problems for second-order elliptic equations (35J25) History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) Error bounds for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N15) Stability and convergence of numerical methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N12) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N30) Finite difference methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N06) Boundary element methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N38) History of numerical analysis (65-03)

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