Estimating the critical time-step in explicit dynamics using the Lanczos method

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 69, Issue 13, 2007, Pages 2780-2788

  Koteras, J R ^a   Lehoucq, R B ^a  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Critical time step; Eigenvalues; Explicit dynamics; Lanczos iteration

Indexed keywords

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ESTIMATION; NUMERICAL METHODS;

CRITICAL TIME STEP; EXPLICIT DYNAMICS; LANCZOS METHOD;

DYNAMICS;

DYNAMICS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ESTIMATION; NUMERICAL METHODS;

EID: 33947615770     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: 10970207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nme.1865     Document Type: Article

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