Simulation of soft projectiles impacting composite targets using an arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian formulation

Journal of Aircraft

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1726-1731

  Cheng, Jingyun ^a,b   Binienda, Wieslaw K ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AKRON   (United States)

^b Pima County Dept of Transp and Flood Control Dist   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPOSITE MATERIALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS;

LAGRANGIAN EULERIAN FORMULATION; NUMERICAL INSTABILITY; REACTION FORCES; SOFT PROJECTILES IMPACT;

PROJECTILES;

EID: 33846065748     PISSN: 00218669     EISSN: 15333868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.19425     Document Type: Article

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