Journal of Applied and Computational Mechanics

Verification and Validation of Common Derivative Terms Approximation in Meshfree Numerical Scheme

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics, China

2 Division of Water Resources and Geoengineering, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Abstract

In order to improve the approximation of spatial derivatives without meshes, a set of meshfree numerical schemes for derivative terms is developed, which is compatible with the coordinates of Cartesian, cylindrical, and spherical. Based on the comparisons between numerical and theoretical solutions, errors and convergences are assessed by a posteriori method, which shows that the approximations for functions and derivatives are of the second accuracy order, and the scale of the support domain has some influences on numerical errors but not on accuracy orders. With a discrete scale h=0.01, the relative errors of the numerical simulation for the selected functions and their derivatives are within 0.65%.

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Journal of Applied and Computational Mechanics
Volume 4, Issue 3
July 2018
Pages 231-244