The partition of unity finite element approach with hp-refinement for the stationary Fokker-Planck equation

Journal of Sound and Vibration

Volumn 327, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 144-162

  Kumar, Mrinal ^a   Chakravorty, Suman ^a   Singla, Puneet ^b   Junkins, John L ^a  

^a Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^b State University of New York   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION ACCURACY; CURSE OF DIMENSIONALITY; D-SYSTEM; FINITE-ELEMENT APPROACH; FOKKER-PLANCK EQUATIONS; HIGHER ORDER; HIGHER-DIMENSIONAL PROBLEMS; HP-REFINEMENT; LOCAL APPROXIMATION; LOCAL REFINEMENT; MESHLESS; NUMERICAL SOLUTION; NUMERICAL TECHNIQUES; PARTITION OF UNITY; PARTITION OF UNITY FINITE ELEMENT METHODS; PROBLEM SIZE; SUB-DOMAINS; TRANSIENT PROBLEMS;

DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS; NONLINEAR DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; RECONNAISSANCE AIRCRAFT; TIMING JITTER;

FOKKER PLANCK EQUATION;

EID: 68349139715     PISSN: 0022460X     EISSN: 10958568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsv.2009.05.033     Document Type: Article

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