On the effects of nodal distributions for imposition of essential boundary conditions in the MLPG meshfree method

Communications in Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 389-395

  Augarde, Charles E ^a   Deeks, A J ^b  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Boundary conditions; Meshfree method; Penalty method

Indexed keywords

FUNCTIONS; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS;

COLLOCATION; MESHFREE METHODS; NODAL POINTS; STRUCTURED GRIDS;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; MATHEMATICAL METHOD;

EID: 22244454065     PISSN: 10698299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cnm.755     Document Type: Article

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