Isogeometric finite element data structures based on Bézier extraction of NURBS

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 87, Issue 1-5, 2011, Pages 15-47

  Borden, Michael J ^a,b   Scott, Michael A ^a   Evans, John A ^a   Hughes, Thomas J R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

B zier extraction; Finite elements; Isogeometric analysis; NURBS

Indexed keywords

ASSEMBLY ALGORITHM; FINITE ELEMENT; FINITE ELEMENT CODES; ISOGEOMETRIC ANALYSIS; NON-UNIFORM RATIONAL B-SPLINES; NUMERICAL INTEGRATIONS; NURBS; SHAPE FUNCTIONS; SMOOTH FUNCTIONS;

DATA HANDLING; DATA STRUCTURES; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS;

SPLINES;

EID: 79958718260     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: 10970207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nme.2968     Document Type: Article

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