An interface-enriched generalized FEM for problems with discontinuous gradient fields

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 89, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 991-1008

  Soghrati, Soheil ^a   Aragón, Alejandro M ^a   Armando Duarte, C ^a   Geubelle, Philippe H ^a,b  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Convection diffusion equation; Enrichment functions; GFEM XFEM; Gradient discontinuity; Heat transfer; Microvascular materials

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROBLEMS; COMPUTATIONAL COSTS; CONFORMING MESHES; CONJUGATE HEAT TRANSFER PROBLEM; CONVECTION-DIFFUSION EQUATIONS; DIRICHLET BOUNDARY CONDITION; ELEMENT EDGE; GFEM/XFEM; GRADIENT DISCONTINUITY; GRADIENT FIELDS; HEAT TRANSFER PROBLEMS; MICROVASCULAR; OPTIMAL RATE OF CONVERGENCE;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BLOOD VESSELS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; HEAT TRANSFER; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PHASE INTERFACES;

PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 84856329071     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: 10970207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nme.3273     Document Type: Article

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