Quadrilateral approaches for accurate free mesh method

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 47, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 1445-1462

  Furukawa, Tomonari ^a   Yang, Changqi ^b   Yagawa, Genki ^a   Wu, Chang Chun ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b CHONGQING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Free mesh method; Improvement of accuracy; Quadrilateral elements; Seamless method

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; GEOMETRY; LINEAR EQUATIONS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PARALLEL ALGORITHMS; VECTORS;

FREE MESH METHOD; IMPROVEMENT OF ACCURACY; QUADRILATERAL ELEMENTS; SEAMLESS METHOD;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 0033901782     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0207(20000320)47:8<1445::AID-NME838>3.0.CO;2-K     Document Type: Article

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