Numerical Analysis Seminar

Monday, January 30, 2006 (Colloquium)

Speaker: Alan Demlow, University of Freiburg
Title: Adaptive finite element methods for controlling pointwise errors
Time: 4:00-5:00 pm
Place: Milner 317

Abstract

Adaptive finite element methods are popular in many applications because of their ability to efficiently approximate solutions to partial differential equations which exhibit singularities or other strong local variations. In this talk I will first give a posteriori error estimates and related adaptive algorithms for controlling global pointwise (maximum) errors, then describe an a posteriori analog of Schatz's localized a priori estimates which is useful for efficiently controlling local pointwise errors.


Numerical Analysis Seminars

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