Mesh free Galerkin method based on natural neighbors and conformal mapping

Computational Mechanics

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 885-905

  Balachandran, G R ^a   Rajagopal, A ^b   Sivakumar, S M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^c INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS   (India)

Author keywords

Element free Galerkin; Moving least squares; Natural neighbors; Schwarz Christoffel mapping

Indexed keywords

CONFORMAL MAPPING; GALERKIN METHODS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MAPPING; MESH GENERATION; NUMERICAL METHODS;

ELEMENT-FREE GALERKIN; MESH FREE METHODS; MOVING LEAST SQUARES; NATURAL NEIGHBORS; NODAL DISCRETIZATION; SCHWARZ-CHRISTOFFEL MAPPING; STRESS/STRAIN FIELDS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL PROBLEM;

COMPUTATIONAL MECHANICS;

EID: 48349137898     PISSN: 01787675     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00466-008-0292-0     Document Type: Article

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