Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations is an international journal that aims to cover research into the development and analysis of new methods for the numerical solution of partial differential equations. It is intended to be readily readable by and directed to a broad spectrum of researchers into numerical methods for partial differential equations throughout science and engineering. The numerical methods and techniques themselves are emphasized rather than the specific applications. The Journal seeks to be interdisciplinary, while retaining the common thread of applied numerical analysis.

C O - E D I T O R S - I N - C H I E F

 George F. Pinder (University of Vermont, Burlington, USA)

 John R. Whiteman (Brunel University, Uxbridge, UK))

E D I T O R   E M E R I T U S

 Ismael Herrera (Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico)

M A N A G I N G   E D I T O R S

 Dawn M. Densmore (University of Vermont, Burlington, USA)

 Caroline M. Whiteman (Brunel University, Uxbridge, UK)

E D I T O R I A L   B O A R D

usa flag Mark Ainsworth (Brown University, Providence, USA)

 Álvaro A. Aldama (National University of Mexico Mexico City, Mexico)

 Myron B. Allen (University of Wyoming, Laramie, USA)

 Ivo Babuska (University of Texas, Austin, USA)

 Joseph Botha (University of the Orange Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa)

 F. Brezzi (Universita di Pavia, Pavia, Italy)

 Ron Buckmire (Occidental College, Los Angeles, USA)

 P. G. Ciarlet (Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France)

 Zhangxing (John) Chen (University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada)

 A. Russell Davies (University of Wales at Aberystwyth, UK)

 Emil O. Frind (University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada)

 Giuseppe Gambolati (Universita di Pavia, Pavia, Italy)

 Roland Glowinski (University of Houston, Houston, TX, USA)

 Norbert Heuer (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile)

 Paul Houston (The University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK)

  Thomas J. R. Hughes (University of Texas, Austin, USA)

 Claes Johnson (University of Göteborg, Göteborg, Sweden)

 Tadahiko Kawai (University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan)

 Abdul Q.M. Khaliq (Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, USA)

 Raythcho D. Lazarov (Texas A&M University, College Station, USA)

 Jan Mandel (University of Colorado, Denver, USA)

 Ivo Marek (Univerzita Karlova, Prague, Czech Republic)

 J. Tinsley Oden (University of Texas, Austin, USA)

 Amiya Kumar Pani (Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India)

 Rolf. C. Rannacher (University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany)

 David M. Sloan (University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK)

 Endre Suli (University of Oxford, Oxford, UK)

 Roger Temam (Indiana University, Bloomington, USA)

 Martin Diaz Viera (Mexican Petroleum Institute)

 Hong Wang (University of South Carolina, Columbia, USA)

 Wolfgang Wendland (Universität Stuttgart,  Stuttgart, Germany) 

 Mary F. Wheeler (University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA)

 Olof Widlund (New York University, NY, USA)

 Zhimin Zhang (Wayne State University, Detroit, USA)