Arbitrarily smooth generalized finite element approximations

Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering

Volumn 196, Issue 1-3, 2006, Pages 33-56

  Duarte, C A ^a   Kim, D J ^a   Quaresma, D M ^b  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Coupling; Distributional data; Generalized finite element method; Hp cloud method; Meshfree methods; Partition of unity method

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FUNCTIONS;

FINITE ELEMENT MESHES; GENERALIZED FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; LAGRANGIAN SHAPE FUNCTIONS; LINEAR ELASTICITY; MESHFREE METHODS;

ELASTICITY;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; ELASTICITY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FUNCTIONS;

EID: 33846524898     PISSN: 00457825     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cma.2005.12.016     Document Type: Article

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