Stabilized conforming nodal integration in the natural-element method

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 861-890

  Yoo, Jeong Wahn ^a   Moran, Brian ^a   Chen, Jiun Shyan ^b  

^a Northwestern University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Higher order gradients; Large deformation; Material incompressibility; Natural element method; Nodal integration; Non Sibsonian interpolant

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DEFORMATION; INTERPOLATION;

NODAL INTEGRATION; SHAPE FUNCTIONS; VORONOI DIAGRAMS;

FLOW OF FLUIDS;

MATHEMATICAL METHOD;

EID: 2942607243     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nme.972     Document Type: Article

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