Analysis of Error in the Solution of the 2-D Diffusion Equation by Finite Element Methods
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https://doi.org/10.5540/tema.2008.09.02.0287Abstract
This work presents a numerical solution of the two-dimensional diffusion equation in comparison with the analytical solution. The norms L2 and L1 of the error are evaluated for two variants of the finite element method: the Galerkin Finite Element Method (GFEM) and the Least-Squares Finite Element Method (LSFEM). Two applications are presented and discussed.References
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