A coupled finite element (FE) method and meshless local Petrov-Galerkin (MLPG) method for analyzing two-dimensional potential problems is presented in this paper. The analysis domain is subdivided into two regions, a finite element (FE) region and a meshless (MM) region. A single weighted residual form is written for the entire domain. Independent trial and test functions are assumed in the FE ...

Meshless methods have been extensively popularized in literature in recent years, due to their flexibility in solving boundary value problems. The meshless local Petrov-Galerkin(MLPG) method for solving the bending problem of the thin plate is presented and discussed in the present paper. The method uses the moving least-squares approximation to interpolate the solution variables, and employs a...

A comparison between weak form meshless local Petrov-Galerkin method (MLPG) and strong form meshless diffuse approximate method (DAM) is performed for the diffusion equation in two dimensions. The shape functions are in both methods obtained by moving least squares (MLS) approximation with the polynomial weight function of the fourth order on the local support domain with 13 closest nodes. The ...

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...

In [4] we put in relation graphs with Dilworth number at most two and the two classes LPG and mLPG. In order to prove this relation, we have heavily exploited a result we deduced from [1]. We have now realized that this result is not always true, so in this corrigendum we correctly restate the result concerning the relation between graphs with Dilworth number at most two and the two classes of ...

We propose a new and simple technique called the Symmetric Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SSPH) method to construct basis functions for meshless methods that use only locations of particles. These basis functions are found to be similar to those in the Finite Element Method (FEM) except that the basis for the derivatives of a function need not be obtained by differentiating those for the func...

A graph G is called a pairwise compatibility graph (PCG) if there exists an edge weighted tree T and two non-negative real numbers dmin and dmax such that each leaf lu of T corresponds to a vertex u ∈ V and there is an edge (u, v) ∈ E if and only if dmin ≤ dT (lu, lv) ≤ dmax where dT (lu, lv) is the sum of the weights of the edges on the unique path from lu to lv in T . In this paper we analyze...

In this paper three numerical techniques are proposed for solving the system of N-coupled nonlinear Schrödinger (CNLS) equations. Firstly, we obtain a time discrete scheme by approximating the first-order time derivative via the forward finite difference formula, then for obtaining a full discretization scheme, we use the Kansa’s approach to approximate the spatial derivatives via radial basis ...

The two dimensional steady state Stokes equations are solved by using a novel MLPG-Mixed Finite Volume method, that is based on the independent meshless interpolations of the deviatoric velocity strain tensor, the volumetric velocity strain tensor, the velocity vector and the pressure. The pressure field directly obtained from this method does not suffer from the malady of checker-board pattern...

A meshless numerical implementation is reported of the 2-D Fleck-Hutchinson phenomenological strain-gradient theory, which fits within the framework of the Toupin-Mindlin theories and deals with firstorder strain gradients and the associated work-conjugate higher-order stresses. From a mathematical point of view, the two-dimensional Toupin-Mindlin strain gradient theory is a generalization of t...