Role of p-version Q(p) and Q′(p) two-dimensional approximation functions in smooth and singular problems

Computers and Structures

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 441-470

  Surana, K S ^a   Gan, G Y ^a  

^a University of Kansas   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; ELASTICITY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FUNCTIONS; HEAT CONDUCTION; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; POLYNOMIALS;

GALERKIN FINITE ELEMENT FORMULATION; LAGRANGE INTERPOLATING POLYNOMIALS; LINEAR SYMMETRIC DIFFERENTIAL OPERATORS; SINGULAR PROBLEMS; SMOOTH PROBLEMS; TWO DIMENSIONAL APPROXIMATION FUNCTIONS;

APPROXIMATION THEORY;

EID: 0030567811     PISSN: 00457949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0045-7949(95)00410-6     Document Type: Article

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