The piecewise polynomial partition of unity functions for the generalized finite element methods

Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering

Volumn 197, Issue 45-48, 2008, Pages 3702-3711

  Oh, Hae Soo ^a   Kim, June G ^b   Hong, Won Tak ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

^b Kangwon National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Condition numbers of stiffness matrices; Convolution partition of unity functions; Partition of unity finite element methods (PUFEM); Shepard functions; Simple partition of unity functions

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS; FUNCTION EVALUATION; INTEGRATION; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; POLYNOMIAL APPROXIMATION; POLYNOMIALS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

COMPUTING TIME; CONDITION NUMBERS OF STIFFNESS MATRICES; CONVOLUTION PARTITION OF UNITY FUNCTIONS; ESSENTIAL BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; ESSENTIAL COMPONENTS; GENERALIZED FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GENERALIZED FINITE ELEMENT METHODS; NUMERICAL INTEGRATIONS; PARTITION OF UNITY; PARTITION OF UNITY FINITE ELEMENT METHODS (PUFEM); RATIONAL FUNCTIONS; REASONABLE ACCURACY; SHEPARD FUNCTIONS; SIMPLE PARTITION OF UNITY FUNCTIONS;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 50049104173     PISSN: 00457825     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cma.2008.02.035     Document Type: Article

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