Higher-order natural element methods: Towards an isogeometric meshless method

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 74, Issue 13, 2008, Pages 1928-1954

  González, David ^a   Cueto, Elías ^a   Doblaré, Manuel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

Author keywords

B splines; de Boor's algorithm; Isogeometric analysis; Laplace interpolation; Meshless; Natural element method; Sibson interpolation

Indexed keywords

BOOLEAN FUNCTIONS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS; DIFFRACTIVE OPTICAL ELEMENTS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; NUMERICAL METHODS; SPLINES; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

B-SPLINES; DE BOOR ALGORITHM; DELAUNAY TRIANGULATION (DT); ESSENTIAL BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; GALERKIN; HIGHER DIMENSIONS; HIGHER ORDER; INTERPOLANTS; ISOGEOMETRIC ANALYSIS; LINEAR COMBINATION (LC); LINEAR ELASTOSTATICS; LINEAR INTERPOLATION; MESHLESS METHOD (MM); NATURAL ELEMENT METHOD (NEM); NATURAL ELEMENT METHODS (NEM); NATURAL NEIGHBOUR INTERPOLATION; NEW CLASS; NEW FORMS; NUMERICAL EXAMPLES; ONE-DIMENSION; QUADRILATERAL MESHING;

INTERPOLATION;

EID: 47249113976     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: 10970207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nme.2237     Document Type: Article

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