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Coupling of mesh-free methods with finite elements: basic concepts and test results. (English) Zbl 1109.65082

Summary: This paper reviews several novel and older methods for coupling mesh-free particle methods, particularly the element-free Galerkin (EFG) method and the smooth particle hydrodynamics (SPH), with finite elements (FEs). We study master-slave couplings where particles are fixed across the FE boundary, coupling via interface shape functions such that consistency conditions are satisfied, bridging domain coupling, compatibility coupling with Lagrange multipliers and hybrid coupling methods where forces from the particles are applied via their shape functions on the FE nodes and vice versa. The hybrid coupling methods are well suited for large deformations and adaptivity and the coupling procedure is independent of the particle distance and nodal arrangement. We study the methods for several static and dynamic applications, compare the results to analytical and experimental data and show advantages and drawbacks of the methods.

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65M60 Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs
35L65 Hyperbolic conservation laws
65M12 Stability and convergence of numerical methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs
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