Accurate MLPG solution of 3D potential problems

CMES - Computer Modeling in Engineering and Sciences

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 43-63

  Pini, Giorgio ^a   Mazzia, Annamaria ^a   Sartoretto, Flavio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b CA' FOSCARI UNIVERSITY OF VENICE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Meshless methods; Moving least squares; Poisson problem; Radial basis functions

Indexed keywords

CURVE FITTING; DATA STRUCTURES; FEEDFORWARD NEURAL NETWORKS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; LINEAR SYSTEMS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RADIAL BASIS FUNCTION NETWORKS;

3-D PROBLEMS; COMPUTATION FLOWS; CONVERGENCE SPEED; CUBATURE RULES; INTEGRAL EVALUATIONS; MESH SIZES; MESHLESS LOCAL PETROV-GALERKIN; MESHLESS METHODS; MOVING LEAST SQUARES; POISSON PROBLEM; POSITIVE DEFINITE; POTENTIAL PROBLEMS; RADIAL BASIS FUNCTIONS; SPARSE DATA STRUCTURES; SPEED-UP;

POISSON EQUATION;

EID: 60149106437     PISSN: 15261492     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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