Table of Contents:
  • Basic concepts
  • 1. Sobolev spaces
  • 2. Variational formulation of elliptic boundary value problems
  • 3. The construction of a finite element space
  • 4. Polynomial approximation theory in Sobolev spaces
  • 5. n-dimensional variational problems
  • 6. Finite element multigrid methods
  • 7. Additive Schwarz preconditioners
  • 8. Max-norm estimates
  • 9. Adaptive meshes
  • 10. Variational crimes
  • 11. Applications to planar elasticity
  • 12. Mixed methods
  • 13. Iterative techniques for mixed methods
  • 14. Applications of operator-interpolation theory.