Adaptive computations using material forces and residual-based error estimators on quadtree meshes

Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering

Volumn 196, Issue 25-28, 2007, Pages 2657-2680

  Tabarraei, A ^a   Sukumar, N ^a  

^a University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

Centroidal Voronoi tessellation; Configurational forces; Error estimation; Hanging nodes; Laplace interpolant; Quadtree mesh

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS; ERROR ANALYSIS; INTERPOLATION; STIFFNESS MATRIX;

MATERIAL FORCES; POLYGONAL BASIS FUNCTIONS; QUADTREE MESHES; RESIDUAL-BASED ERROR ESTIMATORS;

MESH GENERATION;

BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS; ERROR ANALYSIS; INTERPOLATION; MESH GENERATION; STIFFNESS MATRIX;

EID: 34147159350     PISSN: 00457825     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cma.2007.01.016     Document Type: Article

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