The natural neighbour Petrov-Galerkin method for elasto-statics

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 63, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1126-1145

  Wang, Kai ^a   Zhou, Shenjie ^a   Shan, Guojun ^a  

^a SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Meshless method; Natural neighbour interpolation; Petrov Galerkin

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; ELASTICITY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FUNCTIONS; INTERPOLATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; STIFFNESS MATRIX;

ELASTO-STATIC PROBLEM; EQUILIBRIUM EQUATION; NEIGHBOR PETROV-GALERKIN METHOD (NNPG); NON-SIBSONIAN INTERPOLATION;

GALERKIN METHODS;

ELASTICITY; MATHEMATICAL METHOD;

EID: 21344468128     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nme.1304     Document Type: Article

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