An r-Adaptive Finite Element Method Based upon Moving Mesh PDEs

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 149, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 221-244

  Cao, Weiming ^a   Huang, Weizhang ^b   Russell, Robert D ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive finite element method; Moving mesh method; Unstructured mesh adaptation

Indexed keywords

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MESH GENERATION; NUMERICAL METHODS;

ADAPTIVE FINITE ELEMENT METHODS; COMPUTATIONAL DOMAINS; COMPUTATIONAL MESH; MESH MOVEMENT; MOVING MESH; MOVING MESH METHOD; PHYSICAL DOMAIN; TIME-DEPENDENT PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; UNSTRUCTURED MESH ADAPTATIONS; UNSTRUCTURED MESHES;

PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;

EID: 0000359177     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jcph.1998.6151     Document Type: Article

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