Towards an automatic discretization scheme for the method of finite spheres and its coupling with the finite element method

Computers and Structures

Volumn 83, Issue 17-18, 2005, Pages 1429-1447

  MacRi, Michael ^a   De, Suvranu ^a  

^a RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Coupling techniques; Finite element method; Lagrange multipliers; Meshfree methods; Method of finite spheres; Penalty formulation

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FUNCTIONS; INTERPOLATION; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS;

COUPLING TECHNIQUES; MESHFREE METHOD; METHOD OF FINITE SPHERES; PENALTY FORMULATIONS;

SPHERES;

EID: 17744386718     PISSN: 00457949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compstruc.2004.09.019     Document Type: Conference Paper

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