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A Bivariate Spline Method for Second Order Elliptic Equations in Non-Divergence Form

Numerical Analysis 2017-01-05 v2

Abstract

A bivariate spline method is developed to numerically solve second order elliptic partial differential equations (PDE) in non-divergence form. The existence, uniqueness, stability as well as approximation properties of the discretized solution will be established by using the well-known Ladyzhenskaya-Babuska-Brezzi (LBB) condition. Bivariate splines, discontinuous splines with smoothness constraints are used to implement the method. A plenty of computational results based on splines of various degrees are presented to demonstrate the effectiveness and efficiency of our method.

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@article{arxiv.1610.05746,
  title  = {A Bivariate Spline Method for Second Order Elliptic Equations in Non-Divergence Form},
  author = {Ming-Jun Lai and Chunmei Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1610.05746},
  year   = {2017}
}

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23 pages, 20 table, 1 figure

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