Smooth, second order, non-negative meshfree approximants selected by maximum entropy

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 79, Issue 13, 2009, Pages 1605-1632

  Cyron, C J ^a   Arroyo, M ^b   Ortiz, M ^c  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

B splines; Convex approximants; Maximum entropy; Meshfree methods

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMANTS; APPROXIMATION SCHEME; ARBITRARY DIMENSION; B-SPLINE APPROXIMATION; B-SPLINES; BENCH-MARK PROBLEMS; CONVEX APPROXIMANTS; ESSENTIAL BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; FIRST-ORDER; FUNCTION APPROXIMATION; FUNDAMENTAL PROPERTIES; GALERKIN APPROACH; HIGHER-ORDER SCHEME; LAGRANGE FINITE ELEMENTS; MAXIMUM ENTROPY; MESH-FREE METHOD; MESHFREE; MESHFREE METHODS; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; NUMERICAL SOLUTION OF PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; SECOND ORDERS; SHAPE FUNCTIONS; STRUCTURAL VIBRATIONS; UNSTRUCTURED DATA;

AIRCRAFT LANDING SYSTEMS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; ENTROPY; FUNCTION EVALUATION; NUMERICAL METHODS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; SHIP PROPELLERS; STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS;

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EID: 70249127275     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: 10970207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nme.2597     Document Type: Article

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