Mesh free methods: Moving beyond the finite element method

Mesh Free Methods: Moving beyond the Finite Element Method

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 1-692

  Liu, G R ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

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