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http://dx.doi.org/10.12989/sem.2004.17.5.671

Development of a meshless finite mixture (MFM) method  

Cheng, J.Q. (Institute of High Performance Computing)
Lee, H.P. (Institute of High Performance Computing)
Li, Hua (Institute of High Performance Computing)
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Structural Engineering and Mechanics / v.17, no.5, 2004 , pp. 671-690 More about this Journal
Abstract
A meshless method with novel variation of point collocation by finite mixture approximation is developed in this paper, termed the meshless finite mixture (MFM) method. It is based on the finite mixture theorem and consists of two or more existing meshless techniques for exploitation of their respective merits for the numerical solution of partial differential boundary value (PDBV) problems. In this representation, the classical reproducing kernel particle and differential quadrature techniques are mixed in a point collocation framework. The least-square method is used to optimize the value of the weight coefficient to construct the final finite mixture approximation with higher accuracy and numerical stability. In order to validate the developed MFM method, several one- and two-dimensional PDBV problems are studied with different mixed boundary conditions. From the numerical results, it is observed that the optimized MFM weight coefficient can improve significantly the numerical stability and accuracy of the newly developed MFM method for the various PDBV problems.
Keywords
meshless method; finite mixture; point collocation; reproducing kernel particle; differential quadrature; least-square;
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