The Generalized Finite Element Method With Global-Local Enrichment Functions
Kim, Dae-Jin
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Description
Title
The Generalized Finite Element Method With Global-Local Enrichment Functions
Author(s)
Kim, Dae-Jin
Issue Date
2009
Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
Duarte, C. Armando
Department of Study
Civil Engineering
Discipline
Civil Engineering
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Degree Level
Dissertation
Keyword(s)
Engineering, Civil
Language
eng
Abstract
In this work, we propose a procedure to build enrichment functions to overcome this limitation. It involves the solution of local boundary value problems using boundary conditions from a global problem defined on a coarse discretization. The local solutions are in turn used to enrich the global space using the partition of unity framework. This procedure allows the use of a coarse and fixed global mesh for any configuration of local features and this enables efficient solution of problems with multiple local features. It is also appealing for problems with localized nonlinearities since computationally intensive nonlinear iterations can be performed on coarse global meshes. The parallel computation of local solutions can be straightforwardly implemented and large problems can be efficiently solved in massively parallel machines with this approach.
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