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Some advances in high-performance finite element methods

Song Cen, Cheng Jin Wu, Zhi Li, Yan Shang, Chenfeng Li Orcid Logo

Engineering Computations, Volume: ahead-of-print, Issue: ahead-of-print

Swansea University Author: Chenfeng Li Orcid Logo

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DOI (Published version): 10.1108/EC-10-2018-0479

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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to give a review on the newest developments of high-performance finite element methods (FEMs), and exhibit the recent contributions achieved by the authors’ group, especially showing some breakthroughs against inherent difficulties existing in the traditional FEM...

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Published in: Engineering Computations
ISSN: 0264-4401
Published: 2019
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