Superelements for the finite element solution of two-dimensional elliptic problems with boundary singularities

Finite Elements in Analysis and Design

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 315-335

  Yosibash, Zohar ^a   Schiff, Bernard ^b  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Elasticity; Finite element methods; Laplace equation; Singularities; Stress intensity factors

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; ELASTICITY; HEAT TRANSFER; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; PROBLEM SOLVING; STRESS INTENSITY FACTORS;

BOUNDARY SINGULARITIES; SINGULAR SUPERELEMENT (SSE); TWO DIMENSIONAL ELLIPTIC PROBLEMS;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 0031207729     PISSN: 0168874X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-874X(96)00088-1     Document Type: Article

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