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Singularities in two- and three-dimensional elliptic problems and finite element methods for their treatment

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  • Polygonal Domain
  • Adaptive Mesh Refinement
  • Singular Element
  • Poisson Problem
  • Polyhedral Domain

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Whiteman, J.R. (1986). Singularities in two- and three-dimensional elliptic problems and finite element methods for their treatment. In: Vosmanský, J., Zlámal, M. (eds) Equadiff 6. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 1192. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0076092

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