Development of three-dimensional interface elements for coupling of non-matching hexahedral meshes

Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering

Volumn 197, Issue 45-48, 2008, Pages 3870-3882

  Kim, Hyun Gyu ^a  

^a Seoul National University of Science and Technology   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Dissimilar meshes; Interface element method; Non matching interface; Partitioned domains

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL MECHANICS; CRACK PROPAGATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FUNCTION EVALUATION; SPEED; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

DISSIMILAR MESHES; FINITE ELEMENT MESHING; HEXAHEDRAL MESHES; INTERFACE ELEMENT METHOD; INTERFACE ELEMENTS; INTERFACE REGIONS; LINEAR ELASTICITY; NON-MATCHING INTERFACE; NON-MATCHING MESHES; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; PARTITIONED DOMAINS; SHAPE FUNCTIONS; STRAIN FIELDS; THREE DIMENSIONS;

MESH GENERATION;

EID: 50049084915     PISSN: 00457825     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cma.2008.03.023     Document Type: Article

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