Further development of vector generalized finite element method and its hybridization with boundary integrals

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 887-899

  Tuncer, O ^a   Lu, Chuan ^b   Nair, N V ^a   Shanker, B ^a   Kempel, L C ^a  

^a Michigan State University   (United States)

^b Ansoft LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

Boundary integrals; Generalized finite element methods (GFEM); Numerical dispersion; Partition of unity methods; RCS

Indexed keywords

BASIS FUNCTIONS; BOUNDARY INTEGRALS; CANONICAL PROBLEMS; CANONICAL SHAPES; DISPERSION ANALYSIS; EXISTING METHOD; FURTHER DEVELOPMENT; GENERALIZED FINITE ELEMENT METHODS; HELMHOLTZ DECOMPOSITION; INHOMOGENEITIES; NUMERICAL DISPERSIONS; PARTITION OF UNITY METHODS; PRACTICAL PROBLEMS; SURFACE INFORMATION;

BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; DISPERSIONS; HELMHOLTZ EQUATION; NUMERICAL METHODS;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 77749341680     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2009.2039322     Document Type: Article

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