(2001) A Meshless Local Petrov-Galerkin (MLPG) method for free and forced vibration analyses for solids. Abstract The Meshless Local Petrov-Galerkin (MLPG) method is an effective truly meshless method for solving partial differential equations using Moving Least Squares (MLS) interpolants and local weak forms. In this paper, a MLPG formulation is proposed for free and forced vibration analyses....

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...

Paper focuses on application of the Meshless Finite Difference Method (MFDM) solution approach and its selected extensions to the numerical homogenization of the heterogeneous material. The most commonly used method of computer modeling for the multiscale problem (at both the macro and micro (RVE) levels) is the Finite Element Method (FEM). However, this fact does not mean that one should not s...

Recent engineering applications successfully introduced unsymmetric meshless local Petrov-Galerkin (MLPG) schemes. As a step towards their mathematical analysis, this paper investigates nonstationary unsymmetric Petrov-Galerkin-type meshless kernel-based methods for the recovery of L2 functions from finitely many weak data. The results cover solvability conditions and error bounds in negative S...

Though the technique introduced by E. Kansa [7, 8] is very successful in engineering applications, there were no proven results so far on the unsymmetric meshless collocation method for solving PDE boundary value problems in strong form. While the original method cannot be proven to be fail–safe in general, we prove asymptotic feasibility for a generalized variant using separated trial and test...

In this work we address the problem of numerically simulating the Friction Stir Welding process. Due to the special characteristics of this welding method (i.e., high speed of the rotating pin, very large deformations, etc.) finite element methods encounter several difficulties. Meshless methods somewhat alleviate this problems, allowing for an updated Lagrangian framework in the simulation. Ac...

Meshless deformation based on shape matching is a new technique for simulating deformable objects without requiring mesh connectivity information. The approach focuses on speed, ease of use and stability at the expense of physical accuracy. In this paper we introduce improvements to the technique that increase physical realism and make it more suitable for use in interactive real-time environme...

The Natural Element Method (NEM) is a meshless Galerkin method which has shown promise in the area of computational mechanics. In earlier applications of NEM [1–3], natural neighbor (Sibson) coordinates [4] were used to construct the trial and test functions. Recently, Belikov and co-workers [5] proposed a new interpolation scheme (non-Sibsonian interpolation) based on natural neighbors. In thi...

The aim of this manuscript is to give a practical overview of meshless methods (for solid mechanics) based on global weak forms through a simple and well-structured MATLAB code, to illustrate our discourse. The source code is available for download on our website and should help students and researchers get started with some of the basic meshless methods; it includes intrinsic and extrinsic enr...