Remedies to rotational frame dependence and interpolation failure of US-QUAD8 element

Communications in Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 24, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1203-1217

  Ooi, E T ^a   Rajendran, S ^a   Yeo, J H ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Distortion insensitivity; Frame invariance; High performance element; Mesh distortion; Quadrilateral element; US QUAD8

Indexed keywords

CONTROL THEORY; FUNCTION EVALUATION; FUNCTIONS; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW; INTERPOLATION;

DISTORTION INSENSITIVITY; FRAME INVARIANCE; HIGH PERFORMANCE ELEMENT; MESH DISTORTION; QUADRILATERAL ELEMENT; US-QUAD8;

PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

EID: 57749201575     PISSN: 10698299     EISSN: 10990887     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cnm.1026     Document Type: Article

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