Some recent results and proposals for the use of radial basis functions in the BEM

Engineering Analysis with Boundary Elements

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 285-296

  Golberg, M A ^a   Chen, C S ^b   Bowman, H ^b  

^a 2025 University Circle ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

Boundary element method; Diffusion equations; Dual reciprocity method; Particular solutions; Radial basis functions

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; FUNCTIONS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; INTERPOLATION; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS;

DIFFUSION EQUATIONS; DUAL RECIPROCITY METHOD; HELMHOLTZ OPERATORS; KANSA METHOD; POISSON'S EQUATION; RADIAL BASIS FUNCTIONS;

BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 0033116371     PISSN: 09557997     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0955-7997(98)00087-3     Document Type: Article

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