A modified collocation method and a penalty formulation for enforcing the essential boundary conditions in the element free Galerkin method

Computational Mechanics

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 211-222

  Zhu, T ^a   Atluri, S N ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); FUNCTIONS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; STIFFNESS MATRIX; VARIATIONAL TECHNIQUES;

ELEMENT FREE GALERKIN (EFG) METHOD; MODIFIED COLLOCATION METHOD; MOVING LEAST SQUARE (MLS) APPROXIMATION; NONPOSITIVE DEFINITE SYSTEM MATRIX; PENALTY METHOD;

CONTINUUM MECHANICS;

EID: 0032048673     PISSN: 01787675     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004660050296     Document Type: Article

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