Treatment of discontinuity in the reproducing kernel element method

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 241-255

  Lu, Hongsheng ^a   Kim, Do Wan ^a,b   Liu, Wing Kam ^a  

^a Northwestern University   (United States)

^b SunMoon University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Discontinuous reproducing kernel element approximation; Interface; Weak discontinuity

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; FUNCTIONS; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

KERNEL ELEMENT METHOD; MESH-FREE METHODS; NUMERICAL SOLUTIONS;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 18544363900     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nme.1284     Document Type: Article

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