Treatment of material discontinuity in two meshless local Petrov-Galerkin (MLPG) formulations of axisymmetric transient heat conduction

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 61, Issue 14, 2004, Pages 2461-2479

  Batra, R C ^a   Porfiri, M ^a   Spinello, D ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Convergence studies; Jump function; Lagrange multipliers; Meshless MLPG1 and MLPG5 methods

Indexed keywords

CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; DISKS (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); ERRORS; HEAT FLUX; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

MESHLESS FORMULATIONS; NODES; VARIABLES;

HEAT CONDUCTION;

HEAT CONDUCTION; HEAT FLUX; MATHEMATICAL METHOD;

EID: 10644248308     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nme.1156     Document Type: Article

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