Since meshless methods have been introduced to alleviate the difficulties arising in conventional finite element method, many papers on applications of meshless methods to boundary element method have been published. However, most of these papers use moving least squares approximation functions that have difficulties in prescribing essential boundary conditions. Recently, in order to strengthen...

in this paper, a new approach is proposed in order to select an optimal membership function for inputs of wind speed prediction system. then using a fuzzy method and the stochastic characteristics of wind speed in the previous year, the wind speed modeling is performed and the wind speed for the future year will be predicted. in this proposed method, the average and the standard deviation of in...

We exploit the ability to represent data types as container functors [2,1,3] to develop a novel approach to proving properties of lists using arithmetic decision procedures. Containers capture the idea that concrete data types can be characterised by specifying the shape values take and for every possible shape, explaining where positions within that shape are stored. More importantly, a repres...

In this work, XFEM is employed to obtain the stress intensity factors (SIFs) of a semi elliptical part through thickness axial crack. In XFEM, additional functions are employed to enrich the displacement approximation using partition of unity approach. Level set functions are approximated using higher order shape functions in the crack front elements to ensure the accurate modeling of the crack...

elastic solutions applicable to single underground openings usually suffer from geometry related simplification. most tunnel shapes possess two axes of symmetry while a wide range of geometries used in tunneling practice involve only one symmetry axis. d-shape or horse-shoe shape tunnels and others with arched roof and floor are examples of the later category (one symmetry axis). in the present...

A complex geometric shape is often a composition of a set of simple ones, which may differ from each other in terms of their mathematical representations and the ways in which they are constructed. One of the necessary requirements in combining these simple shapes is that their original shapes can be preserved as much as possible. In this paper, a set of partial shape-preserving (PSP) spline ba...

Hadronization corrections to the thrust and related event shape distributions in the two-jet kinematical region of e + e − annihilation are summarized by nonperturbative shape functions. The moments of shape functions are given by universal matrix elements in QCD, which describe the energy flow in QCD final states. We show how the nonperturbative structure of these matrix elements may be inferr...

The root of this study, comes from the lack of regularity where exists in shape function selection in meshless methods. Up to now, shape functions in meshless methods were being established by basis functions. In other words, there was no predictable rule by which the shape functions be predetermined, without any need to basis functions. In presented approach, the authors are going to establish...

the present study is an attempt to investigate some features of radial basis functions (rbfs) approximation methods related to variational problems. thereby authors applied some properties of rbfs to develop a direct method which reduces constrained variational problem to a static optimization problem. to assess the applicability and effectiveness of the method, some examples are examined. dyna...