Date of Award
2015
Document Type
Open Access Thesis
Department
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Sub-Department
Civil Engineering
First Advisor
Robert L. Mullen
Abstract
This study presents the behavior of local node adaptivity for point collocation meshfree numerical methods and its application to linear elastic solid mechanics. A bisection approach to meshfree adaptivity will be presented with numerical examples showing that convergence is achieved. A threshold value is required from the user and this value is an acceptable change in gradient for the problem. If the change in gradient between 2 nodes exceed this limit, a node is added at the mid-point between the two nodes. This process applies to all nodes in the model. Once the refinement is complete, the model is processed again and this procedure is repeated until the program reaches a limit of iterations or the acceptable error is achieved.
Rights
© 2015, Joshua Wayne Derrick
Recommended Citation
Derrick, J. W.(2015). Adaptivity For Meshfree Point Collocation Methods In Linear Elastic Solid Mechanics. (Master's thesis). Retrieved from https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/etd/3715