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We extend the analysis of the streamline diffusion finite element method to quasilinear elliptic problems of second order. An existence theorem and error estimates are given in the case of branches of nonsingular solutions following a recent abstract approach in [12, 13, 26].
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Lube, G. Streamline diffusion finite element method for quasilinear elliptic problems. Numer. Math. 61, 335–357 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01385513
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