A numerical approach based on the meshless collocation method in elastodynamics

In this paper, a collocation technique with the modified equilibrium on line method （ELM） for imposition of Neumann （natural） boundary conditions is presented for solving the two-dimensional problems of linear elastic body vibrations. In the modified ELM, equilibrium over the lines on the natural boundary is satisfied as Neumann boundary condition equations. In other words, the natural boundary conditions are satisfied naturally by using the weak formulation. The performance of the modified version of the ELM is studied for collocation methods based on two different ways to construct meshless shape functions： moving least squares approximation and radial basis point interpolation. Numerical examples of two-dimensional free and forced vibration analyses show that by using the modified ELM, more stable and accurate results would be obtained in comparison with the direct collocation method.

A Meshless Collocation Method with Barycentric Lagrange Interpolation for Solving the Helmholtz Equation

In this paper,Chebyshev interpolation nodes and barycentric Lagrange interpolation basis function are used to deduce the scheme for solving the Helmholtz equation.First of all,the interpolation basis function is applied to treat the spatial variables and their partial derivatives,and the collocation method for solving the second order differential equations is established.Secondly,the differential matrix is used to simplify the given differential equations on a given test node.Finally,based on three kinds of test nodes,numerical experiments show that the present scheme can not only calculate the high wave numbers problems,but also calculate the variable wave numbers problems.In addition,the algorithm has the advantages of high calculation accuracy,good numerical stability and less time consuming.

FAST MULTIPOLE SINGULAR BOUNDARY METHOD FOR LARGE-SCALE PLANE ELASTICITY PROBLEMS

The singular boundary method （SBM） is a recent meshless boundary collocation method that remedies the perplexing drawback of fictitious boundary in the method of fundamental solutions （MFS）. The basic idea is to use the origin intensity factor to eliminate singularity of the fundamental solution at source. The method has so far been applied successfully to the potential and elasticity problems. However, the SBM solution for large-scale problems has been hindered by the operation count of O（N^3） with direct solvers or O（N^2） with iterative solvers, as well as the memory requirement of O（N^2）. In this study, the first attempt was made to combine the fast multipole method （FMM） and the SBM to significantly reduce CPU time and memory requirement by one degree of magnitude, namely, O（N）. Based on the complex variable represen- tation of fundamental solutions, the FMM-SBM formulations for both displacement and traction were presented. Numerical examples with up to hundreds of thousands of unknowns have successfully been tested on a desktop computer. These results clearly illustrated that the proposed FMM-SBM was very efficient and promising in solving large-scale plane elasticity problems.