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On the completeness of meshfree particle methods

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Belytschko, T; Krongauz, Y; Dolbow, J; Gerlach, C
Published in: Int. J. Numer. Methods Eng. (UK)
1998

The completeness of smooth particle hydrodynamics (SPH) and its modifications is investigated. Completeness, or the reproducing conditions, in Galerkin approximations play the same role as consistency in finite-difference approximations. Several techniques which restore various levels of completeness by satisfying reproducing conditions on the approximation or the derivatives of the approximation are examined. A Petrov-Galerkin formulation for a particle method is developed using approximations with corrected derivatives. It is compared to a normalized SPH formulation based on kernel approximations and a Galerkin method based on moving least-square approximations. It is shown that the major difference is that in the SPH discretization, the function which plays the role of the test function is not integrable. Numerical results show that approximations which do not satisfy the completeness and integrability conditions fail to converge for linear elastostatics, so convergence is not expected in non-linear continuum mechanics

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Int. J. Numer. Methods Eng. (UK)

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1998

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43

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5

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785 / 819
 

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Belytschko, T., Krongauz, Y., Dolbow, J., & Gerlach, C. (1998). On the completeness of meshfree particle methods. Int. J. Numer. Methods Eng. (UK), 43(5), 785–819. https://doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1097-0207(19981115)43:53.0.CO;2-9
Belytschko, T., Y. Krongauz, J. Dolbow, and C. Gerlach. “On the completeness of meshfree particle methods.” Int. J. Numer. Methods Eng. (UK) 43, no. 5 (1998): 785–819. https://doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1097-0207(19981115)43:53.0.CO;2-9.
Belytschko T, Krongauz Y, Dolbow J, Gerlach C. On the completeness of meshfree particle methods. Int J Numer Methods Eng (UK). 1998;43(5):785–819.
Belytschko, T., et al. “On the completeness of meshfree particle methods.” Int. J. Numer. Methods Eng. (UK), vol. 43, no. 5, 1998, pp. 785–819. Manual, doi:10.1002/(SICI)1097-0207(19981115)43:53.0.CO;2-9.
Belytschko T, Krongauz Y, Dolbow J, Gerlach C. On the completeness of meshfree particle methods. Int J Numer Methods Eng (UK). 1998;43(5):785–819.

Published In

Int. J. Numer. Methods Eng. (UK)

DOI

Publication Date

1998

Volume

43

Issue

5

Start / End Page

785 / 819