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Variational Formulations and Finite Element Methods

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Although we shall not define in this chapter mixed and hybrid (or other non-standard) finite element methods in a very precise way, we would like to situate them in a sufficiently clear setting. As we shall see, boundaries between different methods are sometimes rather fuzzy. This will not be a real drawback if we nevertheless know how to apply correctly the principles underlying their analysis.

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  1. Dipartimento di Matematica “F. Casorati”, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy

    Daniele Boffi

  2. IUSS (Istituto Universitario di Studi Superiori), Pavia, Italy

    Franco Brezzi

  3. Département de mathématiques et de statistique, Université Laval, Québec, Canada

    Michel Fortin

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Boffi, D., Brezzi, F., Fortin, M. (2013). Variational Formulations and Finite Element Methods. In: Mixed Finite Element Methods and Applications. Springer Series in Computational Mathematics, vol 44. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36519-5_1

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