This is a short summary of recent mathematical results on error bounds and convergence of certain unsymmetric methods, including variations of Kansa’s collocation technique and Atluri’s MLPG method. The presentation is kept as simple as possible in order to address a larger community working on applications in Science and Engineering. Introduction and Summary The Meshless Local Petrov-Galerkin ...

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...

In this paper, the conventional moving least squares interpolation scheme is generalized, to incorporate the information concerning the derivative of the ®eld variable into the interpolation scheme. By using this generalized moving least squares interpolation, along with the MLPG (Meshless Local Petrov±Galerkin) paradigm, a new numerical approach is proposed to deal with 4th order problems of t...

A multiscale simulation technique based on the MLPG methods, and finite deformation mechanics, is developed, implemented, and tested. Several alternate time-dependent interfacial conditions, between the atomistic and continuum regions, are systematically studied, for the seamless multiscale simulation, by decomposing the displacement of atoms in the equivalentcontinuum region into long and shor...

This paper presents a new approach based on the meshless local Petrov–Galerkin (MLPG) and collocation methods to treat the parabolic partial differential equations with non-classical boundary conditions. In the presented method, the MLPG method is applied to the interior nodes while the meshless collocation method is applied to the nodes on the boundaries, and so the Dirichlet boundary conditio...

We analyze transient heat conduction in a thick functionally graded plate by using a higher-order plate theory and a meshless local Petrov-Galerkin (MLPG) method. The temperature field is expanded in the thickness direction by using Legendre polynomials as basis functions. For temperature prescribed on one or both major surfaces of the plate, modified Lagrange polynomials are used as basis and ...

In this paper the meshless local Petrov-Galerkin (MLPG) method is implemented to study the buckling of isotropic cylindrical shells under axial load. Displacement field equations, based on Donnell and first order shear deformation theory, are taken into consideration. The set of governing equations of motion are numerically solved by the MLPG method in which according to a semi-inverse method, ...

Mesh free parallel implementations using multi-core processors are discussed. Particularly, parallelization of the MLPG and SPEM are shown. The appropriate strategies to correctly parallelize the mesh free methods are discussed. Parallel versions run up to 1.96 times faster on dual-core processor and 3.78 on quad-core processor when compared to the sequential one.