Structural Boundary Design via Level Set and Immersed Interface Methods

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 163, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 489-528

  Sethian, J A ^a   Wiegmann, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Explicit jump immersed interface method; Immersed interface method; Level set method; Linear elastostatics; Self design of elastic structures

Indexed keywords

DROP BREAKUP; LEVEL MEASUREMENT; NUMERICAL METHODS;

ELASTIC STRUCTURES; EXPLICIT JUMP IMMERSED INTERFACE METHOD; IMMERSED INTERFACE METHOD; LEVEL SET; LEVEL SET METHOD; LINEAR ELASTOSTATICS; SELF DESIGN OF ELASTIC STRUCTURE; SELF-DESIGN; STRUCTURAL BOUNDARY;

ELASTICITY;

EID: 0001176192     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jcph.2000.6581     Document Type: Article

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