A meshless method for computational stochastic mechanics

International Journal of Computational Methods in Engineering Science and Mechanics

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 41-58

  Rahman, S ^a   Xu, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Element free galerkin method; Karhunen lo ve expansion; Meshless method; Neumann expansion; Random field; Stochastic finite element method; Wavelets

Indexed keywords

EID: 85010363209     PISSN: 15502287     EISSN: 15502295     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15502280590888649     Document Type: Article

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