Q.W. Ma1
CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.18, No.3, pp. 223-234, 2007, DOI:10.3970/cmes.2007.018.223
Abstract Two methods have been recently developed by the author and his group: one called MLPG_R (Meshless Local Petrov-Galerkin method based on Rankine source solution) and the other called QALE-FEM (Quasi Arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian Finite Element Method). The former is a meshless method developed from a general MLPG (Meshless Local Petrov-Galerkin) method and is more computationally efficient than the general one when applied to modelling nonlinear water waves. The later is a mesh-based method similar to a conventional finite element method (FEM) when discretizing the governing equations but different from the conventional one in managing the mesh. More >