Prediction of rank deficiency in partition of unity-based methods with plane triangular or quadrilateral meshes

Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering

Volumn 200, Issue 5-8, 2011, Pages 665-674

  An, X M ^a   Li, L X ^b   Ma, G W ^a,c   Zhang, H H ^d  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^d NANCHANG HANGKONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Linear dependence; Partition of unity based methods; Rank deficiency

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION SPACES; DEGREES OF FREEDOM; ELEMENT LEVEL; GLOBAL APPROXIMATION; GLOBAL MATRIX; HIGH ORDER POLYNOMIAL; HIGH-ORDER APPROXIMATION; LINEAR DEPENDENCE; LOCAL APPROXIMATION; PARTITION OF UNITY; PARTITION OF UNITY-BASED METHODS; QUADRILATERAL MESHES; RANK DEFICIENCY;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 78650677659     PISSN: 00457825     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cma.2010.09.013     Document Type: Article

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