Difficulties associated with free-surface finite element flow simulations are related to a) nonlinear and advective nature of most hydrodynamic flows, b) requirements for compatibility between velocity and pressure interpolation, c) maintaining a valid computational mesh in the presence of moving boundaries, and d) enforcement of the kinematic conditions at the free surface. Focusing on the las...

In this paper, a new free-form shape deformation approach is proposed. We combine a skeleton-based mesh deformation technique with discrete differential coordinates in order to create natural-looking global shape deformations. Given a triangle mesh, we first extract a skeletal mesh, a two-sided Voronoi-based approximation of the medial axis. Next the skeletal mesh is modified by free-form defor...

Mesh free parallel implementations using multi-core processors are discussed. Particularly, parallelization of the MLPG and SPEM are shown. The appropriate strategies to correctly parallelize the mesh free methods are discussed. Parallel versions run up to 1.96 times faster on dual-core processor and 3.78 on quad-core processor when compared to the sequential one.

A truly meshfree method – the radial basis function collocation method is implemented for some 2-D and 3-D groundwater models. The results showed the superior simplicity, general applicability and accuracy of this method, which is a very promising simulation tool in many application areas.

The total variation (TV) denoising method is a PDE-based technique that preserves the edges well but has undesirable staircase effect in some cases, namely, the translation of smooth regions (ramps) into piecewise constant regions (stairs). This paper introduces a novel mesh-free approach using TV (ROFmodel) regularization and radial basis function (RBF) for the numerical approximation of TV-ba...

We extend recently developed mesh-free Lagrangian methods for numerical magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) to arbitrary anisotropic diffusion equations, including: passive scalar diffusion, Spitzer–Braginskii conduction and viscosity, cosmic ray diffusion/streaming, anisotropic radiation transport, non-ideal MHD (Ohmic resistivity, ambipolar diffusion, the Hall effect) and turbulent ‘eddy diffusion’. W...