The meshles.i method based on the least-squares approach, the rneshle.is weighted leastsquares (MWLS) method, is extended to soive conduction heat transfer problems. The MWLS formulation is first established for steady-state problems and then extended to unsteady-state problems with time-stepping schemes. Theoretiiai analy.us antl numerical examples indicate that larger time steps can be used i...

A meshless numerical technique is proposed for solving the generalized variable coefficient Schrodinger equation and Schrodinger-Boussinesq system with electromagnetic fields. The employed meshless technique is based on a generalized smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) approach. The spatial direction has been discretized with the generalized SPH technique. Thus, we obtain a system of ordinary...

The Meshless Local Petrov-Galerkin (MLPG) “mixed collocation” method is applied to the problem of topology-optimization of elastic structures. In this paper, the topic of compliance minimization of elastic structures is pursued, and nodal design variables which represent nodal volume fractions at discretized nodes are adopted. A so-called nodal sensitivity filter is employed, to prevent the phe...

This paper presents an efficient meshless approach for solving electrostatic problems. This novel approach is based on combination of radial basis functions-based meshless unsymmetric collocation method with projection domain decomposition method. Under this new method, we just need to solve a Steklov-Poincaré interface equation and the original problem is solved by computing a series of indepe...

We describe a numerical method to solve the quasistatic Maxwell equations to obtain the electric potential distribution generated by a point source of current density inside a body of arbitrary shape and constant conductivity. The method needs only a set of nodes on the surface and inside the body, but it does not need a mesh connecting the nodes. The proposed meshless method is compared agains...

The meshless method plays an important role in solving problems in computational mechanics where conventional computational methods are not well suited. In this paper, we examine the property of the kernel matrix and investigate the convergence and timing performance of some well-known Krylov subspace methods on solving linear systems from meshless discretizations.

Since meshless methods have been introduced to alleviate the difficulties arising in conventional finite element method, many papers on applications of meshless methods to boundary element method have been published. However, most of these papers use moving least squares approximation functions that have difficulties in prescribing essential boundary conditions. Recently, in order to strengthen...

Purpose – In this paper, a modified meshless method, as one of the numerical techniques that has recently emerged in the area of computational electromagnetics, is extended to solving time-domain wave equation. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach – In space domain, the fields at the collocation points are expanded into a series of new Shepard’s functions which ha...

This contribution concerns the construction of meshless Lagrangian particle methods for the numerical simulation of multiscale phenomena in linear transport problems, where mass conservative discretization methods are essentially required. The proposed discretization scheme works with a finite set of unstructured nodes, each corresponding to one flow particle. In this method, corresponding part...