A new parallel overlapped domain decomposition method for nonlinear dynamic finite element analysis

Computers and Structures

Volumn 81, Issue 26-27, 2003, Pages 2441-2454

  Rama Mohan Rao, A ^a   Appa Rao, T V S R ^a   Dattaguru, B ^b  

^a CSIR STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING RESEARCH CENTRE   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

Finite element method; Newmark algorithm; Nonlinear dynamics; Nonoverlapped domain decomposition; Parallel processing

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAM LISTINGS; DAMPING; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; PARALLEL ALGORITHMS; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; STIFFNESS;

OVERLAPPED DOMAINS;

COMPUTERS;

EID: 0141998677     PISSN: 00457949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0045-7949(03)00312-2     Document Type: Article

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