Element-free Galerkin method: Convergence of the continuous and discontinuous shape functions

Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering

Volumn 148, Issue 3-4, 1997, Pages 257-277

  Krysl, Petr ^a   Belytschko, Ted ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; FUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;

CONVERGENCE; GALERKIN METHOD;

NUMERICAL METHODS;

EID: 0031554859     PISSN: 00457825     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0045-7825(96)00007-2     Document Type: Article

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