| Preface | 5 |
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| Contents | 6 |
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| Local Maximum-Entropy Approximation Schemes | 8 |
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| 1 Introduction | 8 |
| 2 Formulation | 9 |
| 3 Properties | 17 |
| 4 Other Interpretations: Relative Entropy | 19 |
| 5 Applications in Galerkin Methods | 21 |
| 6 Conclusions | 22 |
| References | 22 |
| Genetic Algorithms for Meshfree Numerical Integration | 24 |
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| 1 Introduction | 24 |
| 2 Problem Formulation and Discretization | 26 |
| 3 Numerical Integration | 37 |
| 4 Numerical Examples | 41 |
| 5 Concluding Remarks | 46 |
| References | 46 |
| An RBF Meshless Method for Injection Molding Modelling | 48 |
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| 1 Model Equations | 48 |
| 2 Pressure Field | 50 |
| 3 Front Displacement | 56 |
| 4 Conclusions | 62 |
| References | 62 |
| Strain Smoothing for Stabilization and Regularization of Galerkin Meshfree Methods | 64 |
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| 1 Introduction | 64 |
| 2 Conforming Strain Smoothing for Rank Instability | 65 |
| 3 Additional Stabilization for Spurious Nonzero Energy Modes | 69 |
| 4 Gradient Strain Smoothing Regularization for Material Instability in Strain Localization | 72 |
| 5 Application to Fragment Penetration Problems | 77 |
| 6 Conclusions | 80 |
| References | 81 |
| Fuzzy Grid Method for Lagrangian Gas Dynamics Equations | 83 |
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| 1 Smooth Particle Hydrodynamics | 83 |
| 2 Fuzzy Grid | 85 |
| 3 The Unsymmetrical Approach to Modify Weights | 86 |
| 4 The Symmetrical Approach to Modify Weights | 87 |
| 5 Numerical Examples | 88 |
| 6 Conclusion | 92 |
| References | 92 |
| New Shape Functions for Arbitrary Discontinuities without Additional Unknowns | 93 |
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| 1 Introduction | 93 |
| 2 Level-Set Method | 95 |
| 3 Moving Least-Squares Method | 95 |
| 4 Design of Special Shape Functions | 97 |
| 5 Coupling | 100 |
| 6 Numerical Results | 102 |
| 7 Conclusion | 107 |
| References | 108 |
| A Meshless BEM for 2-D Stress Analysis in Linear Elastic FGMs | 110 |
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| 1 Introduction | 110 |
| 2 Formulation of Boundary-Domain Integral Equations | 112 |
| 3 Transformation of Domain-Integrals into Boundary Integrals | 114 |
| 4 System of Linear Algebraic Equations | 115 |
| 5 Computation of Stresses | 116 |
| 6 Numerical Example | 118 |
| 7 Conclusions | 122 |
| References | 123 |
| A Particle-Partition of Unity Method Part VII: Adaptivity | 125 |
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| 1 Introduction | 125 |
| 2 Partition of Unity Method | 126 |
| 3 Adaptive Multilevel Solution | 133 |
| 4 Numerical Results | 142 |
| 5 Concluding Remarks | 150 |
| References | 151 |
| Enriched Reproducing Kernel Particle Approximation for Simulating Problems Involving Moving Interfaces | 152 |
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| 1 Introduction | 152 |
| 2 Enriched Functional Approximations | 153 |
| 3 Definition of the Continuous Shape Functions with Discontinuous Derivatives | 159 |
| 4 Enrichment Function Expressed by a Polynomial | 161 |
| 5 Numerical Results | 163 |
| 6 Conclusion | 166 |
| References | 166 |
| Deterministic Particle Methods for High Dimensional Fokker- Planck Equations | 168 |
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| 1 A Polymer Model | 168 |
| 2 Meshfree Solution Methods | 173 |
| 3 QMC Product Measures | 175 |
| 4 QMC Simulations | 181 |
| References | 185 |
| Bridging Scale Method and Its Applications | 187 |
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| 1 Bridging Scale Fundamentals | 187 |
| 2 Reduction of the MD Domain | 192 |
| 3 Cauchy-Born Rule | 199 |
| 4 Atomistic Model | 200 |
| 5 Dynamic Crack Propagation in Three Dimensions | 200 |
| 6 Discussion on the Bridging Scale Method | 205 |
| References | 206 |
| A New Stabilized Nodal Integration Approach | 208 |
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| 1 Introduction | 208 |
| 2 Formulation | 209 |
| 3 Results | 214 |
| 4 Discussion | 217 |
| References | 218 |
| Multigrid and M-Matrices in the Finite Pointset Method for Incompressible Flows | 219 |
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| 1 Introduction | 219 |
| 2 FPM for the Incompressible Navier-Stokes Equation | 220 |
| 3 Finite Difference Approximation | 221 |
| 4 Conditions for the Existence of Positive Stencils | 224 |
| 5 Optimization for Interior Points | 228 |
| 6 Setting Up the System Matrix | 229 |
| 7 Algebraic Multigrid | 230 |
| 8 Numerical Results | 231 |
| 9 Conclusions and Outlook | 233 |
| References | 234 |
| Assessment of Generalized Finite Elements in Nonlinear Analysis | 235 |
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| 1 Introduction | 235 |
| 2 Formulation | 236 |
| 3 Numerical Examples | 241 |
| 4 Conclusion | 246 |
| References | 246 |
| A Meshfree Method for Simulations of Interactions between Fluids and Flexible Structures | 248 |
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| 1 Introduction | 248 |
| 2 Governing Equations | 249 |
| 3 Numerical Schemes | 251 |
| 4 Numerical Examples | 257 |
| 5 Conclusion | 261 |
| References | 263 |
| Goal Oriented Error Estimation for the Element Free Galerkin Method | 264 |
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| 1 Introduction | 264 |
| 2 Basics on Output Oriented Error Estimation in FEM | 266 |
| 3 Extension to Element Free Galerkin | 269 |
| 4 Numerical Results | 274 |
| 5 Concluding Remarks | 279 |
| References | 280 |
| Bubble and Hermite Natural Element Approximations | 282 |
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| 1 Introduction | 283 |
| 2 Review of the Natural Element Method | 284 |
| 3 Hierarchical Bubble Functions in the Natural Element Method | 286 |
| 4 Hermite-Natural Element Formulation | 292 |
| 5 Conclusion | 295 |
| References | 296 |
| Color Plates | 298 |