Solving the Signorini Problem on the Basis of Domain Decomposition Techniques

Computing (Vienna/New York)

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 323-344

  Schoberl J ^a  

^a JOHANNES KEPLER UNIVERSITY LINZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Contact problem; Domain decomposition; Preconditioning; Variational inequality

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; CONSTRAINT THEORY; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; ELASTICITY; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PROBLEM SOLVING; VARIATIONAL TECHNIQUES;

DOMAIN DECOMPOSITION TECHNIQUES; FINITE ELEMENT DISCRETIZATION; PRECONDITIONING MATRIX; SIGNORINI PROBLEM;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 0031643878     PISSN: 0010485X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02684379     Document Type: Article

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