A Moving Least Squares weighting function for the Element-free Galerkin Method which almost fulfills essential boundary conditions

Structural Engineering and Mechanics

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 315-332

  Mostt, Thomas ^a   Bucher, Christian ^a  

^a BAUHAUS UNIVERSITY WEIMAR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Boundary conditions; Interpolation; Meshless discretization; Moving Least Squares

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FUNCTIONS; GALERKIN METHODS; INTERPOLATION; PROBLEM SOLVING;

CUBIC WEIGHTING FUNCTIONS; GAUSSIAN FUNCTIONS; MESHLESS DISCRETIZATION; MOVING LEAST SQUARES;

LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS;

EID: 28044450607     PISSN: 12254568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.12989/sem.2005.21.3.315     Document Type: Article

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