The truly Meshless Local Petrov-Galerkin (MLPG) method is extended to solve the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations. The local weak form is modified in a very careful way so as to ovecome the so-called Babus̃ka-Brezzi conditions. In addition, The upwinding scheme as developed in Lin and Atluri (2000a) and Lin and Atluri (2000b) is used to stabilize the convection operator in the streamline di...

The general Meshless Local PetrovGalerkin (MLPG) type weak-forms of the displacement & traction boundary integral equations are presented, for solids undergoing small deformations. These MLPG weak forms provide the most general basis for the numerical solution of the non-hyper-singular displacement and traction BIEs [given in Han, and Atluri (2003)], which are simply derived by using the gradie...

The application of the local meshless numerical method (LRBFCM) for solving a system of coupled partial differential equations (PDE) is explored. The numerical approach is tested on the natural convection based fluid flow problems. The fluid flow part of the solution procedure is coupled locally despite its global nature. Such an approach makes the computations convenient for an implementation ...

This paper presents the implementation of a three-dimensional dynamic code, for contact, impact, and penetration mechanics, based on the Meshless Local Petrov-Galerkin (MLPG) approach. In the current implementation, both velocities and velocity-gradients are interpolated independently, and their compatibility is enforced only at nodal points. As a result, the time consuming differentiations of ...

This paper deals with the dynamic analysis of stress field in cylindrically layeredstructures reinforced by carbon nanotube (CLSRCN) subjected to mechanical shock loading.Application of meshless local integral equations based on meshless local Petrov-Galerkin(MLPG) method is developed for dynamic stress analysis in this article. Analysis is carriedout in frequency domain by applying the Laplace...

A nonlinear formulation of the Meshless Local Petrov-Galerkin (MLPG) finite-volume mixed method is developed for the large deformation analysis of static and dynamic problems. In the present MLPG large deformation formulation, the velocity gradients are interpolated independently, to avoid the time consuming differentiations of the shape functions at all integration points. The nodal values of ...

A meshless method based on the local Petrov-Galerkin approach is proposed, to solve boundary and initial value problems of piezoelectric and magnetoelectric-elastic solids with continuously varying material properties. Stationary and transient dynamic 2-D problems are considered in this paper. The mechanical fields are described by the equations of motion with an inertial term. To eliminate the...

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...