An Introduction to Meshfree Methods and Their Programming [Hardcover]

G.R. Liu (Author), Y.T. Gu (Author)

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Publication Date: July 1, 2005 | ISBN-10: 1402032285 | ISBN-13: 978-1402032288 | Edition: 1

This book aims to present meshfree methods in a friendly and straightforward manner, so that beginners can very easily understand, comprehend, program, implement, apply and extend these methods. It provides first the fundamentals of numerical analysis that are particularly important to meshfree methods. Typical meshfree methods, such as EFG, RPIM, MLPG, LRPIM, MWS and collocation methods are then introduced systematically detailing the formulation, numerical implementation and programming. Many well-tested computer source codes developed by the authors are attached with useful descriptions. The application of the codes can be readily performed using the examples with input and output files given in table form. These codes consist of most of the basic meshfree techniques, and can be easily extended to other variations of more complex procedures of meshfree methods. Readers can easily practice with the codes provided to effective learn and comprehend the basics of meshfree methods.

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This book aims to present meshfree methods in a friendly and straightforward manner, so that beginners can very easily understand, comprehend, program, implement, apply and extend these methods. It provides first the fundamentals of numerical analysis that are particularly important to meshfree methods. Typical meshfree methods, such as EFG, RPIM, MLPG, LRPIM, MWS and collocation methods are then introduced systematically detailing the formulation, numerical implementation and programming. Many well-tested computer source codes developed by the authors are attached with useful descriptions. The application of the codes can be readily performed using the examples with input and output files given in table form. These codes consist of most of the basic meshfree techniques, and can be easily extended to other variations of more complex procedures of meshfree methods. Readers can easily practice with the codes provided to effective learn and comprehend the basics of meshfree methods.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 499 pages
• Publisher: Springer; 1 edition (July 1, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1402032285
• ISBN-13: 978-1402032288
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.3 x 1.1 inches
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• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,268,551 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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G. R. Liu received his PhD from Tohoku University, Japan in 1991. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Northwestern University, U. S. A. He is currently the Director of the Centre for Advanced Computations in Engineering Science (ACES), National University of Singapore. He is the President of the Association for Computational Mechanics (Singapore), and an executive council member of the International Associate for Computational Mechanics. He is also a Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, National University of Singapore. He has provided consultation services to many national and international organizations. He authored more than 500 technical publications including more than 330 international journal papers and eight authored books, including two bestsellers: "Meshfree Method: moving beyond the finite element method" and "Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics: a Meshfree Particle Methods". He is the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Computational Methods and an editorial member of five other journals including the IJNME. He is the recipient of the Outstanding University Researchers Awards, the Defence Technology Prize (National award), Silver Award at CrayQuest competition, the Excellent Teachers Awards, the Engineering Educator Awards, and the APACM Award for Computational Mechanics. His research interests include Computational Mechanics, Meshfree Methods, real-time computation, Nano-scale Computation, Micro bio-system computation, Vibration and Wave Propagation in Composites, Mechanics of Composites and Smart Materials, Inverse Problems and Numerical Analysis.