A new and simple meshless LBIE-RBF numerical scheme in linear elasticity

CMES - Computer Modeling in Engineering and Sciences

Volumn 89, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 513-551

  Sellountos, E J ^a   Polyzos, D ^b   Atluri, S N ^c  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Linear elasticity; Local Boundary Integral Equation (LBIE); Local Radial Basis Functions (LRBF); Meshless methods

Indexed keywords

INTEGRAL REPRESENTATION; LINEAR ELASTICITY; LOCAL BOUNDARY INTEGRAL EQUATION METHODS; LOCAL BOUNDARY INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; LOCAL RADIAL BASIS FUNCTION; MESH-LESS METHODS; MESHLESS INTERPOLATION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL PROBLEMS;

BOUNDARY INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; ELASTICITY; RADIAL BASIS FUNCTION NETWORKS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 84875156230     PISSN: 15261492     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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