a constitutive model based on two–dimensional unstructured galerkin finite volume method (gfvm) is introduced and applied for analyzing nonlinear behavior of cracked concrete structures in equilibrium condition. the developed iterative solver treats concrete as an orthotropic nonlinear material and considers the softening and hardening behavior of concrete under compression and tension by using...

A truly meshless Galerkin method is formulated in the present study, as a special case of the general Meshless Local Petrov-Galerkin (MLPG) “Mixed” approach. The Galerkin method is implemented as a truly meshless method, for solving elasto-static problems. In the present Galerkin method, the test function is chosen to be the same as the trial function, as a special case of the MLPG approach. Ho...

The aim of the paper is to examine the wavelet-Galerkin method for the solution of filtering equations. We use a wavelet biorthogonal basis with compact support for approximations of the solution. Then we compute the Zakai equation for our filtering problem and consider the implicit Euler scheme in time and the Galerkin scheme in space for the solution of the Zakai equation. We give theorems on...

In this article, element free Galerkin method is used for static analysis of thin micro/nanoscale plates based on the nonlocal plate theory. The problem is solved for the plates with arbitrary boundary conditions. Since shape functions of the element free Galerkin method do not satisfy the Kronecker’s delta property, the penalty method is used to impose the essential boundary conditions. Discre...

We present in this paper several extremely efficient and accurate spectral-Galerkin methods for secondand fourth-order equations in polar and cylindrical geometries. These methods are based on appropriate variational formulations which incorporate naturally the pole condition(s). In particular, the computational complexities of the Chebyshev–Galerkin method in a disk and the Chebyshev–Legendre–...

We introduce a new and efficient Chebyshev-Legendre Galerkin method for elliptic problems. The new method is based on a Legendre-Galerkin formulation, but only the Chebyshev-Gauss-Lobatto points are used in the computation. Hence, it enjoys advantages of both the LegendreGalerkin and Chebyshev-Galerkin methods.

In this article we present a multilevel preconditioner for interior penalty discontinuous Galerkin discretizations of second order elliptic boundary value problems that gives rise to uniformly bounded condition numbers without any additional regularity assumptions on the solution. The underlying triangulations are only assumed to be shape regular but may have hanging nodes subject to certain mi...

We discuss the methodology of the validation of a higher order discontinuous Galerkin scheme for acoustic computations. That includes an accurate definition of the exact solution in the problem as well as careful study of convergence properties of a DG scheme for a chosen acoustic problem. The efficiency of a higher order scheme will be confirmed for computations on coarse meshes.

These lectures present a relatively recent introduction into the class of discontinuos Galerkin (DG) methods, named Discontinuous Petrov-Galerkin (DPG) methods. DPG methods, in which DG spaces form a critical ingredient, can be thought of as least-square methods in nonstandard norms, or as Petrov-Galerkin methods with special test spaces, or as a nonstandard mixed method. We will pursue all the...

In this paper we consider the local discontinuous Galerkin method based on the generalized alternating numerical fluxes, for solving the linear convection-diffusion equations in one dimension and two dimensions. As an application of generalized Gauss–Radau projections, we get rid of the dual argument and obtain directly the optimal L2-norm error estimate in a uniform framework. The sharpness of...