New perspectives on polygonal and polyhedral finite element methods

DOI10.1142/S0218202514400065zbMath1291.65322MaRDI QIDQ5169490

Gianmarco Manzini, N. Sukumar, Alessandro Russo

Publication date: 10 July 2014

Published in: Mathematical Models and Methods in Applied Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

numerical integrationconsistencyvirtual element methodWachspress basis functionsbarycentric finite elements

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stability and convergence of numerical methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N12) Finite difference methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N06) Direct numerical methods for linear systems and matrix inversion (65F05)

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• PolyMesher

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