Meshless methods: An overview and recent developments

Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering

Volumn 139, Issue 1-4, 1996, Pages 3-47

  Belytschko, T ^a   Krongauz, Y ^a   Organ, D ^a   Fleming, M ^a   Krysl, P ^b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Northwestern University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FINITE VOLUME METHOD;

DISCRETIZATION; KERNELS; MESHLESS APPROXIMATIONS; MESHLESS METHODS; PARTITIONS OF UNITY;

LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS;

EID: 0030379279     PISSN: 00457825     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0045-7825(96)01078-X     Document Type: Article

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