Polytope finite elements

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 73, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1811-1835

  Milbradt, P ^a   Pick, T ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Finite element method; Natural element coordinates; Polytope; Voronoi decomposition

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION ALGORITHMS; DIFFERENTIATION (CALCULUS); INTERPOLATION; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS;

NATURAL ELEMENT COORDINATES; VORONOI DECOMPOSITION;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

APPROXIMATION ALGORITHMS; DIFFERENTIATION (CALCULUS); FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; INTERPOLATION; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS;

EID: 41449086606     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: 10970207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nme.2149     Document Type: Article

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