Non uniform weighted extended B-Spline finite element analysis of non linear elliptic partial differential equations

Abstract

We propose a non uniform web spline based finite element analysis for elliptic partial differential equation with the gradient type nonlinearity in their principal coefficients like p-laplacian equation and Quasi-Newtonian fluid flow equations. We discuss the well-posednes of the problems and also derive the apriori error estimates for the proposed finite element analysis and obtain convergence rate of $\mathcal{O}(h^{\alpha })$ for $\alpha >0$.