Reliability of Finite Element Computations

Dr. Ivo Babuska

Texas Institute for Computational and Applied Mathematics
University of Texas at Austin

December 5, 1997

Abstract

One of the major problems in the computational mechanics is the assessment of the reliability of the computed results. The talk will address the problem of the a-posteriori error estimation of the computed results It will concentrate on the case of solving elliptic partial differential equations which has wide applications in the structural mechanics. A-posteriori upper and lower bounds of the computed data will be presented.