Title:         Explicit Finite Element Methods
               for Symmetric Hyperbolic Equations

Authors:       Richard S. Falk and Gerard R. Richter

Source:        SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis, 36 (1999), pp. 935-952

Status:        Published

Abstract:      A family of explicit space-time finite element methods for the
               initial boundary value problem for linear, symmetric hyperbolic
               systems of equations is described and analyzed.  The method
               generalizes the discontinuous Galerkin method, and as is
               typical for this method, error estimates of order O(h^(n+1/2))
               are obtained for approximations by polynomials of degree less
               than or equal to n.

Keywords:      finite elements, symmetric hyperbolic, explicit

Subj. Class.   65M60, 65M15

URL:           http://www.math.rutgers.edu/~falk/papers/efeshe.pdf