Analysis of transient heat conduction in 3D anisotropic functionally graded solids, by the MLPG method

CMES - Computer Modeling in Engineering and Sciences

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 161-174

  Sladek, J ^a   Sladek, V ^a   Tan, C L ^b   Atluri, S N ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF CONSTRUCTION AND ARCHITECTURE   (Slovakia)

^b CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Heaviside step function; Laplace transform; Local weak form; Meshless method; Moving least squares interpolation

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS; CURVE FITTING; FUNCTIONALLY GRADED MATERIALS; HEAT CONDUCTION; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

ANISOTROPIC MEDIUMS; DIRICHLET; DO-MAINS; FUNCTIONALLY GRADED; GALERKIN APPROACHES; GOVERNING EQUATIONS; HEAVISIDE STEP FUNCTION; LOCAL INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; LOCAL WEAK FORM; MESHLESS APPROXIMATIONS; MESHLESS METHOD; MESHLESS METHODS; MLPG METHODS; MOVING LEAST SQUARES INTERPOLATION; NODAL POINTS; NONHOMOGENEOUS; NUMERICAL APPROACHES; RANDOMLY DISTRIBUTED; SIMPLE GEOMETRIES; SUB DOMAINS; TIME DEPENDENCES; TRANSIENT HEAT CONDUCTIONS; TRANSIENT PROBLEMS; UNIT TESTS; WEAK FORMULATIONS;

LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS;

EID: 56849098587     PISSN: 15261492     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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