This paper presents a novel formulation for static limit analysis of structures, which the Airy stress function is approximated using stabilized Radial Point Interpolation Mesh-free method (RPIM). The field determined as second-order derivatives function, and equilibrium equations are automatically satisfied priori. so-called Stabilized Conforming Nodal Integration (SCNI) employed to ensure pre...

The boundary element method (BEM) is one of numerical methods for the boundary-value problem of partial differential equations and has been so far used in the fields of plasma and fusion science. For example, the BEM has been adopted for solving the Grad-Shafranov (G-S) equation which describes the magnetohydrodynamics equilibrium in an axisymmetric plasma [1]. On the other hand, Mukherjee et a...

Introduction Moving least squares approximation is one kind of meshless methods in which the approximation is built from nodes only. Comparing to mesh-based methods, meshless methods have advantages on (1) refining is simpler to incorporate, (2) moving discontinuities can be treated easily, (3) large deformation can be handled robustly, (4) higher-order continuous shape functions, (5) non-local...

A meshless method for the solution of 2D Helmholtz equation has been developed by using the Boundary Integral Equation (BIE) combined with Radial Basis Function (RBF) interpolations. BIE is applied by using the fundamental solution of the Helmholtz equation, therefore domain integrals are not encountered in the method. The method exploits the advantage of placing the source point always in the ...

Over the past decade, the radial basis function method has been shown to produce high quality solutions to the multivariate scattered data interpolation problem. However, this method has been associated with very high computational cost, as compared to alternative methods such as finite element or multivariate spline interpolation. For example, the direct evaluation at M locations of a radial b...

In this paper, a truly meshless method, the Meshless Local Petrov-Galerkin (MLPG) Method, is developed for three-dimensional elasto-statics. The two simplest members of MLPG family of methods, the MLPG type 5 and MLPG type 2, are combined, in order to reduce the computational requirements and to obtain high efficiency. The MLPG5 method is applied at the nodes inside the 3-D domain, so that any ...

Numerical solutions obtained by the Meshless Local Petrov-Galerkin (MLPG) method are presented for two dimensional steady-state heat conduction problems. The MLPG method is a truly meshless approach, and neither the nodal connectivity nor the background mesh is required for solving the initial-boundary-value problem. The penalty method is adopted to efficiently enforce the essential boundary co...