A comparison between two solution techniques to solve the equations of glacially induced deformation of an elastic Earth

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 479-502

  Bängtsson, Erik ^a   Lund, Björn ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

ABAQUS; Direct vs iterative solution methods; FEM; Glacial rebound; Saddle point matrices

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION; DIFFERENCE EQUATIONS; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; DIFFERENTIATION (CALCULUS); ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW; ITERATIVE METHODS; SOLUTIONS; TURBULENT FLOW;

ABAQUS; DIRECT VS ITERATIVE SOLUTION METHODS; DISCRETIZATION; ELASTIC BODIES; ELASTIC RESPONSE]; EXTERNAL LOADS; FE PACKAGE; FEM; FINITE ELEMENTS; GLACIAL REBOUND; INCOMPRESSIBLE LIMIT; ITERATIVE SOLUTIONS; MODEL PROBLEMS; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; PRE STRESSING; SADDLE POINT MATRICES; SOLUTION STRATEGY; SOLUTION TECHNIQUES; THEORETICAL ANALYSIS;

PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;

EID: 48549095185     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: 10970207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nme.2268     Document Type: Article

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