Thin shell analysis from scattered points with maximum-entropy approximants

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 85, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 723-751

  Millan D ^a   Rosolen, A ^a   Arroyo, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Maximum entropy approximants; Meshfree methods; Point set surfaces; Thin shells

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMANTS; AUTOMATIC DETECTION; COMPLEX TOPOLOGY; FOURTH ORDER PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; GEOMETRIC STRUCTURE; GLOBAL PARAMETERIZATION; HIGH-DIMENSIONAL; KIRCHHOFF; MAXIMUM-ENTROPY; MESH-BASED METHODS; MESH-FREE METHOD; MESHFREE; PARAMETERIZATIONS; PARAMETRIC DOMAINS; PARTITION OF UNITY; POINT-SET SURFACES; SCATTERED POINTS; SMOOTH MANIFOLDS; STATISTICAL LEARNING METHODS; THIN SHELLS;

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; ENTROPY; PARAMETERIZATION; TEACHING; TOPOLOGY;

SHELLS (STRUCTURES);

EID: 78751502448     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: 10970207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nme.2992     Document Type: Article

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