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Meshless Methods and Their Numerical Properties
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Meshless Methods and Their Numerical Properties

by Hua Li, Shantanu S. Mulay
February 2013
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
447 pages
14h 16m
English
CRC Press
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Chapter 1
Introduction
1.1 BACKGROUND
One of the most important advances in the eld of numerical methods was
the development of the nite element method (FEM) in the late 1950s. In
FEM, a continuum is divided into discrete elements that are connected
together by a topological map and usually are called meshes. FEM is a
robust and thoroughly developed method for computational science and
engineering. However, FEM has several shortcomings, for example:
• Difculty in meshing and re-meshing
• Low accuracy, especially for computing stresses
• Difculties when dealing with certain class of problems
Simulating the dynamic crack growth with arbitrar ...
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