Meshless Methods

Handbook of Numerical Heat Transfer: Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 225-247

  Pepper, D W ^a  

^a University of Nevada Las Vegas   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffuse element methods; Element free Galerkin methods; Moving least squares methods; Radial basis functions; Smooth particle hydrodynamis methods

Indexed keywords

EID: 34447649681     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470172599.ch7     Document Type: Chapter

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