Modeling of heterogeneous materials and media is a problem of fundamental importance to
a wide class of phenomena and systems, ranging from condensed matter physics, soft …

Particles encountered in nature and engineering practice are normally not spherical but of
irregular shapes. Particle shape plays a key role in determining the behaviour of bulk solids …

In the past two decades, meshfree methods have emerged into a new class of computational
methods with considerable success. In addition, a significant amount of progress has been …

The particle finite element method (PFEM) is a powerful and robust numerical tool for the
simulation of multi-physics problems in evolving domains. The PFEM exploits the …

Smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) is a meshfree particle method based on
Lagrangian formulation, and has been widely applied to different areas in engineering and …

The aim of this manuscript is to give a practical overview of meshless methods (for solid
mechanics) based on global weak forms through a simple and well-structured MATLAB …

Meshfree methods are becoming an increasingly popular alternative to mesh-based
methods of numerical simulation. The biggest stated advantage of meshfree methods is the …

The objective of this work is to describe the design and implementation of a framework for
building multi-disciplinary finite element programs. The main goals are generality …

We present a general formulation for the analysis of fluid-structure interaction problems
using the particle finite element method (PFEM). The key feature of the PFEM is the use of a …

The violent free-surface motions and the corresponding impact loads are numerically
simulated by using the Moving Particle Semi-implicit (MPS) method, which was originally …