Higher-order XFEM for curved strong and weak discontinuities

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 82, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 564-590

  Cheng, Kwok Wah ^a   Fries, Thomas Peter ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Corrected XFEM; Higher order accuracy; Strong and weak discontinuities; XFEM

Indexed keywords

BLENDING ELEMENTS; CORRECTED XFEM; CURVED INTERFACE; EXTENDED FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GALERKIN; HIGHER ORDER; INTEGRATION POINTS; LINEAR ELEMENT; NUMERICAL RESULTS; OPTIMAL CONVERGENCE; PIECE-WISE; PLANAR INTERFACE; STRONG DISCONTINUITY; SUB-CELLS; TEST CASE; WEAK DISCONTINUITY; WEAK FORM;

BLENDING; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 77949962092     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: 10970207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nme.2768     Document Type: Article

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