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Approximation of p-Biharmonic Problem using WEB-Spline based Mesh-Free Method

  • Naraveni Rajashekar EMAIL logo , Sudhakar Chaudhary and V.V.K. Srinivas Kumar
Published/Copyright: July 16, 2019

Abstract

We describe and analyze the weighted extended b-spline (WEB-Spline) mesh-free finite element method for solving the p-biharmonic problem. The WEB-Spline method uses weighted extended b-splines as basis functions on regular grids and does not require any mesh generation which eliminates a difficult, time consuming preprocessing step. Accurate approximations are possible with relatively low-dimensional subspaces. We perform some numerical experiments to demonstrate the efficiency of the WEB-Spline method.

MSC 2010: 65N12; 65N22; 65N30; 41A15; 35Q90

Acknowledgements

The authors would like to thank the referees for thoroughly reading the manuscript and their valuable suggestions. First author is thankful to University Grants Commission, India, for their financial support through Senior Research Fellowship (ID No. 421249).

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Received: 2018-10-05
Accepted: 2019-06-25
Published Online: 2019-07-16
Published in Print: 2019-10-25

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