Practical aspects of numerical simulations of dynamic events: Effects of meshing

International Journal of Impact Engineering

Volumn 24, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 925-945

  Zukas, J A ^a   Scheffler, D R ^b  

^a PO Box 11314 ^*  (United States)

^b U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; SHOCK WAVES;

EULERIAN METHODS; LAGRANGIAN METHODS; MESHING;

IMPACT TESTING;

EID: 0033686886     PISSN: 0734743X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0734-743X(00)00012-9     Document Type: Article

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