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Meshless and Generalized Finite Element Methods: A Survey of Some Major Results

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Meshfree Methods for Partial Differential Equations

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering ((LNCSE,volume 26))

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In this lecture, we discuss Meshless and Generalized Finite Element Methods. We survey major results in this area with a unified approach.

The work of this author was partially supported by Office of Naval Research Grant N00014-99-1-0724.

The work of this author was partially supported by the Texas Institute for Computational and Applied Mathematics, University of Texas at Austin.

The work of this author was partially supported by the Texas Institute for Computational and Applied Mathematics, University of Texas at Austin.

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  1. Texas Institute for Computational and Applied Mathematics, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA

    I. Babuška

  2. Department of Mathematics, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, USA

    U. Banerjee

  3. Department of Mathematics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA

    J. E. Osborn

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Babuška, I., Banerjee, U., Osborn, J.E. (2003). Meshless and Generalized Finite Element Methods: A Survey of Some Major Results. In: Griebel, M., Schweitzer, M.A. (eds) Meshfree Methods for Partial Differential Equations. Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering, vol 26. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-56103-0_1

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