An HR-method of mesh refinement for boundary element method

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 979-996

  Ammons, Bruce A ^a,b   Vable, Madhukar ^a  

^a Michigan Technological University   (United States)

^b Dateppli Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Boundary element method; Mesh refinement; Numerical error

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BENDING (DEFORMATION); ELASTICITY; ERROR ANALYSIS; FRACTURE MECHANICS; ITERATIVE METHODS; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); POLYNOMIALS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; PROBLEM SOLVING;

CUBIC HERMITE POLYNOMIALS; GRADING FUNCTION; LINEAR LAGRANGE; QUADRATIC LAGRANGE;

BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 0032202668     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0207(19981130)43:6<979::AID-NME451>3.0.CO;2-J     Document Type: Article

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