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...

a truly meshless local petrov-galerkin (mlpg) method is developed for solving 3d elasto-static problems. using the general mlpg concept, this method is derived through the local weak forms of the equilibrium equations, by using test functions, namely, the heaviside function. the moving least squares (mls) are chosen to construct the shape functions, for the mlpg method. the penalty approximatio...

In recent years, there have been extensive efforts to find the numerical methods for solving problems with interface. The main idea of this work is to introduce an efficient truly meshless method based on the weak form for interface problems. The proposed method combines the direct meshless local Petrov–Galerkin method with the visibility criterion technique to solve the interface problems. It ...

A meshless local Petrov-Galerkin (MLPG) method is applied to solve problems of Reissner-Mindlin shells under thermal loading. Both stationary and thermal shock loads are analyzed here. Functionally graded materials with a continuous variation of properties in the shell thickness direction are considered here. A weak formulation for the set of governing equations in the Reissner-Mindlin theory i...

(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....

(2000) Meshless local Petrov–Galerkin (MLPG) method in combination with finite element and boundary element approaches. 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. It is, however, computationally expensive for some problems. A coupled MLPG/Finite Element ...

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...

A Meshless Local Petrov-Galerkin (MLPG) method has been developed for solving 3D elastodynamic problems. It is derived from the local weak form of the equilibrium equations by using the general MLPG concept. By incorporating the moving least squares (MLS) approximations for trial and test functions, the local weak form is discretized, and is integrated over the local sub-domain for the transien...

In this paper, we develop the meshless local Petrov-Galerkin formulation of the scattering from rectangular cavities embedded in a ground plane. The electromagnetic scattering by the cavity is governed by the Helmholtz equation along with Sommerfeld's radiation conditions imposed at infinity. The MLPG method is a truly meshless method wherein no elements or background cells are needed, in eithe...

Three different truly Meshless Local Petrov-Galerkin (MLPG) methods are developed for solving 3D elasto-static problems. Using the general MLPG concept, these methods are derived through the local weak forms of the equilibrium equations, by using different test functions, namely, the Heaviside function, the Dirac delta function, and the fundamental solutions. The one with the use of the fundame...