NURBS-enhanced finite element method (NEFEM)

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 56-83

  Sevilla, Ruben ^a   Fernández Méndez, Sonia ^a   Huerta, Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

CAD; Discontinuous Galerkin; Exact geometry representation; Finite elements; High order isoparametric finite elements; NURBS; Transient Maxwell equations

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; GALERKIN METHODS; INTEGRATION; INTERPOLATION; IRON COMPOUNDS; MATERIALS SCIENCE; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL METHODS; POLYNOMIALS; SPLINES;

CAD; DISCONTINUOUS GALERKIN; EXACT GEOMETRY REPRESENTATION; FINITE ELEMENTS; HIGH-ORDER ISOPARAMETRIC FINITE ELEMENTS; NURBS; TRANSIENT MAXWELL EQUATIONS;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 53749102374     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: 10970207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nme.2311     Document Type: Article

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