Author : Jens M. Melenk
Release : 2004-10-19
Genre : Mathematics
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 81X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis hp-Finite Element Methods for Singular Perturbations by : Jens M. Melenk
Download or read book hp-Finite Element Methods for Singular Perturbations written by Jens M. Melenk. This book was released on 2004-10-19. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many partial differential equations arising in practice are parameter-dependent problems that are of singularly perturbed type. Prominent examples include plate and shell models for small thickness in solid mechanics, convection-diffusion problems in fluid mechanics, and equations arising in semi-conductor device modelling. Common features of these problems are layers and, in the case of non-smooth geometries, corner singularities. Mesh design principles for the efficient approximation of both features by the hp-version of the finite element method (hp-FEM) are proposed in this volume. For a class of singularly perturbed problems on polygonal domains, robust exponential convergence of the hp-FEM based on these mesh design principles is established rigorously.