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A meshless Fragile Points Method (FPM) is presented for analyzing 2D flexoelectric problems. Local, simple, polynomial and discontinuous trial and test functions are generated with the help of a local meshless differential quadrature…
The Fragile Points Method (FPM) is an elementarily simple Galerkin meshless method, employing Point-based discontinuous trial and test functions only, without using element-based trial and test functions. In this study, the algorithmic…
In this paper, a new method, named the Fragile Points Method (FPM), is developed for computer modeling in engineering and sciences. In the FPM, simple, local, polynomial, discontinuous and Point-based trial and test functions are proposed…
The Finite element method (FEM) has long served as the computational backbone for topology optimization (TO). However, for designing structures undergoing large deformations, conventional FEM-based TO often exhibits numerical instabilities…
Three kinds of Fragile Points Methods based on Petrov-Galerkin weak-forms (PG-FPMs) are proposed for analyzing heat conduction problems in nonhomogeneous anisotropic media. This is a follow-up of the previous study on the original FPM based…
The ability to predict patient-specific soft tissue deformations is key for computer-integrated surgery systems and the core enabling technology for a new era of personalized medicine. Element-Free Galerkin (EFG) methods are better suited…
Flexoelectricity refers to a phenomenon which involves a coupling of the mechanical strain gradient and electric polarization. In this study, a meshless Fragile Points Method (FPM), is presented for analyzing flexoelectric effects in…
A new and effective computational approach is presented for analyzing transient heat conduction problems. The approach consists of a meshless Fragile Points Method (FPM) being utilized for spatial discretization, and a Local Variational…
In this paper, we present a meshless method belonging to the family of element-free Galerkin (EFG) methods. The distinguishing feature of the presented meshless method is that it allows accurate enforcement of essential boundary conditions.…
The simulation of high-rate deformation and failure of metals is has traditionally been performed using Lagrangian finite element methods or Eulerian hydrocodes. Lagrangian mesh-based methods are limited by issues involving mesh…
Meshfree methods for in silico modelling and simulation of cardiac electrophysiology are gaining more and more popularity. These methods do not require a mesh and are more suitable than the Finite Element Method (FEM) to simulate the…
The performance evaluation of a potentially unstable slope involves two key components: the initiation of the slope failure and the post-failure runout. The Finite Element Method (FEM) excels at modeling the initiation of instability but…
The modeling of large deformation fracture mechanics has been a challenging problem regarding the accuracy of numerical methods and their ability to deal with considerable changes in deformations of meshes where having the presence of…
The discrete fracture model (DFM) has been widely used in the simulation of fluid flow in fractured porous media. Traditional DFM uses the so-called hybrid-dimensional approach to treat fractures explicitly as low-dimensional entries (e.g.…
Most research on the simulation of deformation and failure of metals has been and continues to be performed using the finite element method. However, the issues of mesh entanglement under large deformation, considerable complexity in…
In the first part of this two-paper series, a new Fragile Points Method (FPM), in both primal and mixed formulations, is presented for analyzing flexoelectric effects in 2D dielectric materials. In the present paper, a number of numerical…
Meshless methods are a promising candidate to reliably simulate materials undergoing large deformations. Unlike mesh based methods like the FEM, meshless methods are not limited in the amount of deformation they can reproduce since there…
This study proposes a novel adaptive finite volume-particle method (AFVPM) for accurate and efficient free surface flow simulations. The proposed AFVPM synergistically combines the Eulerian finite volume method (FVM) on unstructured meshes…
This paper introduces a new weak Galerkin (WG) finite element method for second order elliptic equations on polytopal meshes. This method, called WG-FEM, is designed by using a discrete weak gradient operator applied to discontinuous…
Slender beams are often employed as constituents in engineering materials and structures. Prior experiments on lattices of slender beams have highlighted their complex failure response, where the interplay between buckling and fracture…