A partition-of-unity-based finite element method for level sets

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 76, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1513-1527

  Valance, Stéphane ^a   de Borst, René ^b   Réthoré, Julien ^a   Coret, Michel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Evolving discontinuities; Finite elements; Level sets; Partition of unity

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; DROP BREAKUP; FUNCTION EVALUATION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; LEVEL MEASUREMENT; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;

ACCURACY ANALYSIS; DISCRETIZATION; EVOLVING DISCONTINUITIES; FINITE DIFFERENCES; FINITE DOMAINS; FINITE ELEMENT SHAPE FUNCTIONS; FINITE ELEMENTS; FINITE-ELEMENT APPROACHES; GOVERNING EQUATIONS; HAMILTON-JACOBI EQUATIONS; INTERNAL BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; IRREGULAR DOMAINS; LEVEL SET METHODS; LEVEL SETS; ONE-DIMENSIONAL; PARTITION OF UNITY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 60949093638     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: 10970207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nme.2371     Document Type: Article

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