A ‘pure’ boundary node method for potential theory

Gowrishankar, Ramesh; Mukherjee, Subrata

doi:10.1002/cnm.501

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“…Mukherjee, together with his research collaborators, has recently proposed a new computational approach called the boundary node method (BNM) [27,20,9,8,10,11,14]. Other examples of boundary-based meshless methods are the local BIE (LBIE) approach [36,35] and the boundary point interpolation method (BPIM) [18].…”

Section: Boundary-based Meshfree Methodsmentioning

confidence: 98%

Application of an accelerated boundary-based mesh-free method to two-dimensional problems in potential theory

Kulkarni

Telukunta

Mukherjee

2003

Computational Mechanics

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The boundary node method (BNM) is a boundary-only meshfree method based on boundary integral equations (BIE). One drawback of the usual BNM, however, is that it typically requires much more computer time than the usual boundary element method (BEM). The multipole method (MM) has been demonstrated, in the context of the n body problem, and the BEM, to greatly accelerate these methods while still maintaining sufficient accuracy. The present paper explores, for the first time, a coupling of the BNM with the MM (called the BNMM) in the context of 2-D potential theory. Numerical results (for selected problems) from the BNM are compared with those from the BNMM with regard to accuracy and computational efficiency. Introduction Domain-based meshfree methodsMeshfree (also called meshless) methods, that only require points rather than elements to be specified in the physical domain, have tremendous potential advantages over methods such as the finite element method (FEM) that require discretization of a body into elements.The idea of moving least squares (MLS) interpolants, for curve and surface fitting, is described in a book by [21].[29] proposed a coupling of MLS interpolants with Galerkin procedures in order to solve boundary value problems. They called their method the diffuse element method (DEM) and applied it to two-dimensional (2-D) problems in potential theory and linear elasticity.During the relatively short span of less than a decade, great progress has been made in solid mechanics applications of domain-based meshfree methods. Some of these methods are: The element-free Galerkin (EFG) method [4], the reproducing kernel particle method (RKPM) [23], h À p clouds [31] the meshless local Petrov-Galerkin (MLPG) approach [2], the extended finite element method (X-FEM) [12], the finite cloud method (FCM) [1] and the point interpolation method (PIM) [24]. The boundary element methodAnother approach towards alleviating meshing difficulties associated with the FEM is the use of the boundary element method (BEM) (e.g. [26,3,7,6]). The standard BEM is a very mature method for the analysis of a broad class of problems in science and engineering. For linear problems, the BEM has the well known dimensionality advantage in that only the 2-D bounding surface of a 3-D body needs to be meshed when this method is used. Boundary-based meshfree methodsS. Mukherjee, together with his research collaborators, has recently proposed a new computational approach called the boundary node method (BNM) [27,20,9,8,10,11,14]. Other examples of boundary-based meshless methods are the local BIE (LBIE) approach [36,35] and the boundary point interpolation method (BPIM) [18]. The LBIE, however, is not strictly a boundary method since it requires evaluation of integrals over certain surfaces (called L s in [36]) that can be regarded as ''closure surfaces'' of boundary elements. [22] have very recently proposed a boundary only method called the boundary cloud method (BCM). This method is very similar to the BNM in that scattered points are used f...

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Section: Boundary-based Meshfree Methodsmentioning

confidence: 98%

Application of an accelerated boundary-based mesh-free method to two-dimensional problems in potential theory

Kulkarni

Telukunta

Mukherjee

2003

Computational Mechanics

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“…(A totally mesh-free version, however, has been proposed [11]). Therefore, this method is a ''pseudo'' mesh-free method rather than a ''pure'' one.…”

Section: The Boundary Node Methodsmentioning

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“…Mukherjee, together with his research collaborators, has proposed a new computational approach called the boundary node method (BNM) [5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12]. Other examples of boundary-based mesh-free methods are the local BIE (LBIE) approach [13,14], the boundary only radial basis function method (BRBFM) [15], the boundary cloud method (BCM) [16,17] and the boundary point interpolation method (BPIM) [18].…”

Section: Boundary-based Mesh-free Methodsmentioning

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The extended boundary node method for three-dimensional potential theory

Telukunta¹,

Mukherjee²

2005

Computers & Structures

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“…in which F is a scalar functional The corresponding displacements are derived, using (3), as: (5) and the gradients of the displacements in (5) are:…”

Section: Non-hyper-singular Mlpg Displacement and Traction Biesmentioning

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MLPG Methods for Discretizing Weakly Singular Bies

Atluri

Han

2004

Advances in Scattering and Biomedical Engineering

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The general Meshless Local Petrov-Galerkin (MLPG) type weak-forms of the displacement & traction boundary integral equations are presented, for solids undergoing small deformations. Using the directly derived non-hyper singular integral equations for displacement gradients, simple and straightforward derivations of weakly singular traction BIE's for solids undergoing small deformations are also presented. As a framework for meshless approaches, the MLPG weak forms provide the most general basis for the numerical solution of the non-hyper-singular displacement and traction BIEs. By employing the various types of test functions, several types of MLPG/BIEs are formulated. Numerical examples show that the present methods are very promising, especially for solving the elastic problems in which the singularities in displacemens, strains, and stresses, are of primary concern.

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A ‘pure’ boundary node method for potential theory

Cited by 9 publications

References 29 publications

Application of an accelerated boundary-based mesh-free method to two-dimensional problems in potential theory

Application of an accelerated boundary-based mesh-free method to two-dimensional problems in potential theory

The extended boundary node method for three-dimensional potential theory

MLPG Methods for Discretizing Weakly Singular Bies

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