Domain decomposition for finite element analysis

Communications in Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 61-71

  Kaveh, A ^a   Roosta, G R ^b  

^a IRAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b BUILDING AND HOUSING RESEARCH CENTER   (Iran)

Author keywords

Domain decomposition; Finite element; Genre structure; Level structure

Indexed keywords

ASPECT RATIO; CALCULATIONS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; PARALLEL ALGORITHMS; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

AUTOMATIC PARTITIONING; DOMAIN DECOMPOSITION; GENRE STRUCTURE; LEVEL STRUCTURE;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 0031075156     PISSN: 10698299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-0887(199702)13:2<61::AID-CNM30>3.0.CO;2-6     Document Type: Article

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