A Review of Applications of Meshfree Methods in the area of Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow: MLPG method in particular

1. Research Student, Department of Mechanical Engineering, School of Engineering, Gautam Buddha University, Greater Noida, Gautam Buddha Nagar, Uttar Pradesh, India 2. Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, School of Engineering, Gautam Buddha University, Greater Noida, Gautam Buddha Nagar, Uttar Pradesh, India; 3. Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, School of Engineering, Gautam Buddha University, Greater Noida, Gautam Buddha Nagar, Uttar Pradesh, India; ---------------------------------------------------------------------***--------------------------------------------------------------------Abstract: A review is presented for the analysis of heat transfer and fluid flow problems in engineering and science, with the use of different meshfree methods. The success of the meshfree methods lay in the local nature, as well as higher order continuity, of the trial function approximations and a low cost to prepare input data for numerical analyses, since the creation of a finite element mesh is not required. There is a broad variety of meshless methods available today; however the focus is placed on the meshless local PetrovGalerkin (MLPG) method, in this paper.