Treatment of point loads in element free galerkin method (EFGM)

Communications in Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 335-341

  Zuohui, Pang ^a  

^a HOHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Dirac function; Element free galerkin method (EFGM); Point load

Indexed keywords

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS;

ELEMENT FREE GALERKIN METHOD (EFGM); MOVING LEAST SQUARES (MLS) APPROXIMATION;

GALERKIN METHODS;

EID: 0043206290     PISSN: 10698299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-0887(200005)16:5<335::AID-CNM336>3.0.CO;2-O     Document Type: Article

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