The stationary Fokker-Planck Equation (FPE) is solved for nonlinear dynamic systems using a local numerical technique based on the meshless Partition of Unity Finite Element Method (PUFEM). The method is applied to the FPE for two-dimensional dynamical systems, and argued to be an excellent candidate for higher dimensional systems and the transient problem. Variations of the conventional PUFEM ...

The regularized meshless method is a novel boundary-type meshless method but by now has largely been confined to homogeneous problems. In this paper, we apply the regularized meshless method to the nonhomogeneous problems in conjunction with the dual reciprocity technique in the evaluation of the particular solution. Numerical experiments of three benchmark nonhomogeneous problems demonstrate t...

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...

It is widely acknowledged that 3-D mesh generation remains one of the most man-hours consuming techniques within computational mechanics. The problem of mesh generation is that the time remains unbounded, even using the most sophisticated mesh-generator. For a given distribution of points, it is possible to obtain a mesh very quickly, but it may require several iterations, including manual inte...

In this work we review the opportunities given by the use of local maximumentropy approximants (LME) for the simulation of forming processes. This approximation can be considered as a meshless approximation scheme, and thus presents some appealing features for the numerical simulation of forming processes in a Galerkin framework. Especially the behavior of these shape functions at the boundary ...

During the last ten years, various meshless techniques have been developed to solve complex boundary value problems. However, there is still not yet an efficient meshless method available for general linear static analysis. The method of finite spheres is a promising meshless technique with respect to efficiency and applicability [1]. In this paper, improvements of the method of finite spheres ...

A stochastic meshless method is presented for solving boundary-value problems in linear elasticity that involves random material properties. The material property was modelled as a homogeneous random eld. A meshless formulation was developed to predict stochastic structural response. Unlike the nite element method, the meshless method requires no structured mesh, since only a scattered set of n...

In this study we develop a formalism to describe the organization of DNA inside bacteriophage capsids during genome packaging. We have previously shown that DNA inside bacteriophage phi29 (phi29) is organized into folded toroids [A. S. Petrov and S. C. Harvey, Structure 15, 21 (2007)], whereas epsilon15 (epsilon15) reveals the coaxial organization of the genetic material [A. S. Petrov, K. Lim-H...

This paper considers the numerical solution of time-dependent convection-diffusion-reaction equations. We shall employ combinations of streamlineupwind Petrov–Galerkin (SUPG) and local projection stabilization (LPS) meth-ods in space with the higher order variational time discretization schemes. In particular, we consider time discretizations by discontinuous Galerkin (dG) meth-ods and continuo...