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Finite Elements in Higher than One-Dimension
Authors: Plexousakis, Michael
Chatzipantelidis, Panagiotis
Reviewer: Akrivis, George
Subject: MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTER SCIENCE > MATHEMATICS > NUMERICAL ANALYSIS >
MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTER SCIENCE > MATHEMATICS > NUMERICAL ANALYSIS >
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Abstract:
In this chapter we study finite element methods for elliptic problems and the heat equation in two or three spatial dimensions. We consider the variational form of the two-point elliptic problem and introduce the finite element method. We consider partitions of two-dimensional domains using triangles and show error estimations for the finite element method. We discretize the heat equation only in the spatial variables by the finite element method and thus obtain a semi-discrete problem. We show existence, uniqueness and error estimates of the solution of this semi-discrete problem. The fully discrete problem occurs by further discretizing the semi-discrete problem in time. We consider the forward Euler method, the backward Euler method and the Crank-Nicolson method. We further show stability and consistency results and derive error estimates for these methods.
Linguistic Editors: Tsiadimou, Anastasia
Technical Editors: Chatzipantelidis, Panagiotis
Graphic Editors: Chatzipantelidis, Panagiotis
Type: Chapter
Creation Date: 2015
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License: Attribution - NonCommercial - ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
Handle http://hdl.handle.net/11419/674
Bibliographic Reference: Plexousakis, M., & Chatzipantelidis, P. (2015). Finite Elements in Higher than One-Dimension [Chapter]. In Plexousakis, M., & Chatzipantelidis, P. 2015. Numerical Solution of Partial Differential Equations [Undergraduate textbook]. Kallipos, Open Academic Editions. https://hdl.handle.net/11419/674
Language: Greek
Is Part of: Numerical Solution of Partial Differential Equations
Publication Origin: Kallipos, Open Academic Editions