Weakly enforced essential boundary conditions for NURBS-embedded and trimmed NURBS geometries on the basis of the finite cell method

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 95, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 811-846

  Ruess, M ^a   Schillinger, D ^b   Bazilevs, Y ^c   Varduhn, V ^d   Rank, E ^d  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^d TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Fictitious domain; High order approximation; Immersed boundary; Isogeometric analysis; NURBS; Trimmed geometry; Weak boundary conditions

Indexed keywords

FICTITIOUS DOMAINS; HIGH-ORDER APPROXIMATION; IMMERSED BOUNDARY; ISOGEOMETRIC ANALYSIS; NURBS; WEAK BOUNDARY CONDITIONS;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; ELASTICITY; GEOMETRY; NUMERICAL METHODS; TURBULENT FLOW;

INTERPOLATION;

EID: 84881553378     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: 10970207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nme.4522     Document Type: Article

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