The Meshless Local Petrov-Galerkin (MLPG) “mixed collocation” method is applied to the problem of topology-optimization of elastic structures. In this paper, the topic of compliance minimization of elastic structures is pursued, and nodal design variables which represent nodal volume fractions at discretized nodes are adopted. A so-called nodal sensitivity filter is employed, to prevent the phe...

The Meshless Local Petrov-Galerkin (MLPG) mixed collocation method is proposed in this paper, for solving elasticity problems. In the present MLPG approach, the mixed scheme is applied to interpolate the displacements and stresses independently, as in the MLPG finite volume method. To improve the efficiency, the local weak form is established at the nodal points, for the stresses, by using the ...

Title of dissertation: MESHLESS COLLOCATION METHODS FOR THE NUMERICAL SOLUTION OF ELLIPTIC BOUNDARY VALUED PROBLEMS AND THE ROTATIONAL SHALLOW WATER EQUATIONS ON THE SPHERE Christopher D. Blakely, Doctor of Philosophy, 2009 Dissertation directed by: Professor John Osborn Department of Mathematics Professor Ferdinand Baer Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science This dissertation thesis has...

a meshless approach, collocation discrete least square (cdls) method, is extended in this paper, for solvingelasticity problems. in the present cdls method, the problem domain is discretized by distributed field nodes. the fieldnodes are used to construct the trial functions. the moving least-squares interpolant is employed to construct the trialfunctions. some collocation points that are indep...

This paper presents a meshless point collocation method for three-dimensional crack propagation. The meshless point collocation method is based on direct discretization of strong-form governing equations to achieve a truly meshless scheme that does not require mesh structures or a numerical integration procedure. These characteristics of the point collocation method enable the direction of an a...

in this paper, we propose a new numerical method for solution of urysohn two dimensional mixed volterra-fredholm integral equations of the second kind on a non-rectangular domain. the method approximates the solution by the discrete collocation method based on inverse multiquadric radialbasis functions (rbfs) constructed on a set of disordered data. the method is a meshless method, because it i...

in this paper, a technique generally known as meshless numerical scheme for solving fractional dierential equations isconsidered. we approximate the exact solution by use of radial basis function(rbf) collocation method. this techniqueplays an important role to reduce a fractional dierential equation to a system of equations. the numerical results demonstrate the accuracy and ability of this me...

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...

The aim of the present paper is the development of an efficient numerical algorithm for the solution of magnetohydrodynamics flow problems for regular and irregular geometries subject to Dirichlet, Neumann and Robin boundary conditions. Toward this, the meshless point collocation method (MPCM) is used for MHD flow problems in channels with fully insulating or partially insulating and partially ...

In this paper, a method based on a combination of an optimization of directions of orthotropy, along with topology optimization, is applied to continuum orthotropic solids with the objective of minimizing their compliance. The spatial discretization algorithm is the so called Meshless Local Petrov-Galerkin (MLPG) “mixed collocation” method for the design domain, and the material-orthotropy orie...