The reliability of the Arc-Length Method in the analysis of mode-jumping problems

Collection of Technical Papers - AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics and Materials Conference

Volumn 3, Issue , 2003, Pages 1978-1987

  Cerini, Marco ^a   Falzon, Brian G ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY; VECTORS;

ARC LENGTH METHOD; MODE JUMPING;

AERODYNAMICS;

EID: 0041464978     PISSN: 02734508     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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