Virtual and smoothed finite elements: A connection and its application to polygonal/polyhedral finite element methods

DOI10.1002/nme.4965zbMath1352.65531WikidataQ56913221 ScholiaQ56913221MaRDI QIDQ2952871

Sundararajan Natarajan, Stéphane Pierre Alain Bordas, Ean Tat Ooi

Publication date: 30 December 2016

Published in: International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1002/nme.4965

zbMATH Keywords

polyhedra; virtual element method; scaled boundary finite element method; smoothed finite element method; boundary integration

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

65N30: Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs

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Uses Software

• XFEM

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