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Chapter 3
Recent developments of
meshless methods
3.1 INTRODUCTION
In this chapter, the ve meshless methods are presented. Three of them are
in the strong form: the Hermite-cloud method, random differential quadra-
ture (RDQ) method, and the point weighted least-squares (PWLS) method.
The other two are in the weak form: the local Kriging (LoKriging) method
and the variation of local point interpolation method (vLPIM). All the ve
meshless methods presented here were contributed by the present authors.
3.2 HERMITE-CLOUD METHOD
The present Hermite-cloud method employs the Hermite interpolation theorem
for the construction of interpolation fu ...