Mathematical Theory of Finite and Boundary Element Methods by Albert H. Schatz, Vidar Thomée, Wolfgang L. Wendland.

These are the lecture notes of the seminar "Mathematische Theorie der finiten Element­ und Randelementmethoden" organized by the "Deutsche Mathematiker-Vereinigung" and held in Dusseldorf from 07. - 14. of June 1987. Finite element methods and the closely related boundary element...

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Main Authors: Schatz, Albert H. (Author), Thomée, Vidar (Author), Wendland, Wolfgang L. (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Basel : Birkhäuser Basel : Imprint: Birkhäuser, 1990.
Series:DMV Seminar ; 15
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-7630-8
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Table of Contents:
  • I: An Analysis of the Finite Element Method for Second Order Elliptic Boundary Value Problems
  • O. Introduction
  • 1. Some function spaces, notation and preliminaries
  • 2. Some finite element spaces and their properties
  • 3. Orthogonal projections onto finite element spaces in L2, in H1 and H01
  • 4. Galerkin finite element method for second order elliptic boundary value problems. Basic Hl and L2 estimates
  • 5. Indefinite second order elliptic problems
  • 6. Local error estimates
  • 7. An introduction to grid refinement. An application to boundary value problems with non-convex corners
  • 8. Maximum norm estimates for the L2 projection. A method using weighted norms
  • 9. Maximum norm estimates for the Galerkin finite element method for second order elliptic problems
  • References
  • II: The Finite Element Method for Parabolic Problems
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Non-smooth data error estimates for the semidiscrete problem
  • 3. Completely discrete schemes
  • 4. A nonlinear problem
  • References
  • III: Boundary Element Methods for Elliptic Problems
  • 1 Boundary Integral Equations
  • 2 The Characterization of Boundary Integral Operators and Galerkin Boundary Element Methods
  • 3 Collocation Methods
  • 4 Concluding Remarks.