Achievements and some unsolved problems of the finite element method

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 47, Issue 1-3, 2000, Pages 9-28

  Zienkiewicz, O C ^a  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adaptive refinement; CBS algorithm; Finite element method; Fluid dynamics; Patch test

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

ADAPTIVE REFINEMENT; PATCH TESTS;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FLUID DYNAMICS; HISTORICAL ASPECT;

EID: 0034628062     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0207(20000110/30)47:1/3<9::AID-NME793>3.0.CO;2-P     Document Type: Article

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