Study on the degeneration of quadrilateral element to triangular element

Communications in Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 671-679

  Li, L X ^a   Han, X P ^b   Xu, S Q ^c  

^a XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NORTHWESTERN POLYTECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c XI'AN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Degeneration; Geometry mapping; Quadrilateral element; Shape function; Triangular element

Indexed keywords

DEGENERATION; QUADILATERAL ELEMENTS; STRAIGHT EDGES; TRIANGULAR ELEMENTS;

ENGINEERING; FUNCTIONS; GEOMETRY; MAPPING; TRIANGULATION;

NUMERICAL METHODS;

GEOMETRY; MATHEMATICAL METHOD;

EID: 4444284418     PISSN: 10698299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cnm.704     Document Type: Article

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