In this paper the meshfree method is developed to solve the forward problem for electrical impedance tomography. Differing from finite element method and finite volume method, there is no mesh generation in meshfree method, which is easier to realize and more propitious to be developed as an adaptive procedures for image reconstruction. Numerical simulation results are presented and compared wi...

In this paper and its sequels, we introduce and analyze a new class of methods, collectively called the reproducing kernel element method (RKEM). The central idea in the development of the new method is to combine the strengths of both finite element methods (FEM) and meshfree methods. Two distinguished features of RKEM are: the arbitrarily high order smoothness and the interpolation property o...

This paper is concerned with the two new boundary-type radial basis function collocation schemes, boundary knot method (BKM) and boundary particle method (BPM). The BKM is developed based on the dual reciprocity theorem, while the BKM employs the multiple reciprocity technique. Unlike the method of fundamental solution, the two methods use the non-singular general solution instead of singular f...

Much of the current focus in high performance computing (HPC) for computational fluid dynamics (CFD) deals with grid based methods. However, parallel implementations for new meshfree particle methods such as Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) are less studied. In this work, we present optimizations for both central processing unit (CPU) and graphics processing unit (GPU) of a SPH method. The...

Meshfree methods are viewed as next generation computational techniques. With evident limitations of conventional grid based methods, like FEM, in dealing with problems of fracture mechanics, large deformation, and simulation of manufacturing processes, meshfree methods have gained much attention by researchers. A number of meshfree methods have been proposed till now for analyzing complex prob...

This paper is concerned with the hp-adaptive multilevel solution of second order elliptic partial differential equations using the meshfree particle–partition of unity method. The proposed refinement scheme automatically constructs new discretization points (or particles), the meshfree analogue of an adaptive h-refinement, and local approximation spaces with better local resolution, a p-refinem...

Smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) is a meshfree particle method based on Lagrangian formulation, and has been widely applied to different areas in engineering and science. This paper presents an overview on the SPH method and its recent developments, including (1) the need for meshfree particle methods, and advantages of SPH, (2) approximation schemes of the conventional SPH method and nume...

Graphics Processing Units (GPUs), originally developed for computer games, now provide computational power for scientific applications. A study on the comparison of computational speed-up and efficiency of a GPU with a CPU for the Finite Pointset Method (FPM), which is a numerical tool in Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) is presented. As FPM is based on the point cloud, it is so expensive whe...