Numerical and spectral investigations of trefftz infinite elements

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 553-577

  Harari, Isaac ^a   Barai, Parama ^a   Barbone, Paul E ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustics; DtN boundary conditions; Finite element methods; Infinite elements; Unbounded domains

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL METHODS;

NOVEL INFINITE ELEMENTS; TIME HARMONIC ACOUSTICS; TREFFTS INFINITE ELEMENTS;

SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

EID: 0033359431     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0207(19991010)46:4<553::AID-NME688>3.0.CO;2-O     Document Type: Article

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