Advancing analysis capabilities in ANSYS through solver technology

Electronic Transactions on Numerical Analysis

Volumn 15, Issue , 2003, Pages 106-121

  Poole, Gene ^c   Liu, Yong Cheng ^a   Mandel, Jan ^b  

^a ANSYS INC   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Algebraic multigrid; Elasticity; Finite elements; Iterative solvers

Indexed keywords

EID: 2942528972     PISSN: 10689613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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