Efficient simulation of multi-body contact problems on complex geometries: A flexible decomposition approach using constrained minimization

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 77, Issue 13, 2009, Pages 1834-1862

  Dickopf, Thomas ^a   Krause, Rolf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Contact problems; Domain decomposition; Finite elements; Linear elasticity; Mortar methods; Multigrid methods; Non matching meshes

Indexed keywords

CONTACT PROBLEMS; DOMAIN DECOMPOSITION; FINITE ELEMENTS; LINEAR ELASTICITY; MORTAR METHODS; MULTIGRID METHODS; NON-MATCHING MESHES;

ELASTICITY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; LINEAR SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; MORTAR; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

DOMAIN DECOMPOSITION METHODS;

EID: 64049109180     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: 10970207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nme.2481     Document Type: Article

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