A radial basis function approach in the meshless local Petrov-Galerkin method for Euler-Bernoulli beam problems

Computational Mechanics

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 464-474

  Raju, I S ^a   Phillips, D R ^a   Krishnamurthy, T ^a  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Beam problems; Meshless methods; MLPG method; Radial basis functions

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GALERKIN METHODS; INTERPOLATION; RADIAL BASIS FUNCTION NETWORKS;

BEAM PROBLEMS; EULER-BERNOULLI BEAM PROBLEMS; GENERALIZED MOVING LEAST SQUARES (GMLS); MESHLESS METHODS; PETROV-GALERKIN METHOD;

FLOW OF FLUIDS;

EID: 10644293882     PISSN: 01787675     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00466-004-0591-z     Document Type: Article

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