International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering · 1989 · 121 citations · 1 references
ComputingComputational EngineeringMathematicsComputational MechanicsFinite Element AnalysisFinite Element MethodsConvergence AnalysisFinite Element DiscretizationFinite Element FormulationShape FunctionsSolid Mechanics ApplicationsStructural Finite Element AnalysisFinite Element ModelingLinear System Solvers
Abstract The paper addresses the question of the optimal selection of the shape functions for p ‐type finite elements and discusses the effectivity of the conjugate gradient and multilevel iteration method for solving the corresponding linear system.
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