Finite-element mesh generation using self-organizing neural networks

Microcomputers in Civil Engineering

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 233-250

  Manevitz, Larry ^a   Yousef, Malik ^a   Givoli, Dan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; NEURAL NETWORKS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

FINITE ELEMENT MESH GENERATION; KOHONEN ALGORITHM; TWO DIMENSIONAL GRID GENERATING SYSTEM;

ALGORITHMS;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; KOHONEN ALGORITHM; MESH PLACEMENT; NEURAL NETWORK;

EID: 0031195149     PISSN: 08859507     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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