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

摘要

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.