TY - JOUR T1 - An Experimental Study of Several Multidimensional, Locally Conservative, Eulerian-Lagrangian Finite AU - SON-YOUNG YI AND JIM DOUGLAS, JR. JO - International Journal of Numerical Analysis Modeling Series B VL - 3 SP - 299 EP - 314 PY - 2013 DA - 2013/04 SN - 4 DO - http://doi.org/ UR - https://global-sci.org/intro/article_detail/ijnamb/259.html KW - locally conservative KW - Eulerian-Lagrangian KW - semilinear parabolic equation KW - finite element method AB - This paper is an experimental continuation of [7], where we presented one realization of a locally-conservative Eulerian-Lagrangian finite element method (LCELM) for a semilinear parabolic equation and proved an optimal convergence rate. In this paper, we present two higher- order extensions of the method of [7], along with one lower-order procedure. We show some numerical results to illustrate the accuracy and efficiency of the LCELM procedures. Optimal convergence rates for each method will be presented.