A V-cycle multigrid method for the plate bending problem discretized by nonconforming finite elements

Journal of Computational Mathematics

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 533-544

  Xu, Xue Jun ^a   Li, Li Kang ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Nonconforming elements; The plate problem; V cycle multigrid

Indexed keywords

BENDING (FORMING); FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

NONCONFORMING FINITE ELEMENTS;

PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS);

EID: 0033329596     PISSN: 02549409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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