Mathematical Aspects of Meshless Methods

Meshless methods: A review and computer implementation aspects

The aim of this manuscript is to give a practical overview of meshless methods (for solid mechanics) based on global weak forms through a simple and well-structured MATLAB code, to illustrate our discourse. The source code is available for download on our website and should help students and researchers get started with some of the basic meshless methods; it includes intrinsic and extrinsic enr...

Kernel–Based Meshless Methods

2 Kernels 1 2.1 Basics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 2.2 Positive Definiteness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 2.3 General Rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 2.4 Inner Product . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 2.5 Dualit...

Kernel Based Meshless Methods

Nodal Integration of Meshless Methods

Abstract. Meshless methods offer interesting properties for the simulation of bulk forming processes. This research concerns the investigation of the stabilized conforming nodal integration scheme (SCNI) for use in metal-forming processes. Two tests are carried out. Firstly, the performance of SCNI is compared to a standard integration scheme. The performance seems problem specific. Secondly th...

Meshless Methods Coupled with Other Numerical Methods

Meshless or mesh-free (or shorten as MFree) methods have been proposed and achieved remarkable progress over the past few years. The idea of combining MFree methods with other existing numerical techniques such as the finite element method (FEM) and the boundary element method (BEM), is naturally of great interest in many practical applications. However, the shape functions used in some MFree m...