Htike Htike1, Wen Chen1, Yan Gu1, Junjie Yang1
CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.72, No.4, pp. 247-272, 2011, DOI:10.3970/cmes.2011.072.247
Abstract This paper makes the first attempt to employ the Radial Basis Function (RBF) interpolation in the material point method (MPM), in which the shape function is based on RBF and polynomial function and satisfies the partition of unity and possesses Delta-function property. It is worthy of stressing that the RBF interpolation has the merit of high smoothness and is very accurate and can easily be applied to the MPM framework for mapping information between moving particles, known as material point in the MPM, and background grids. The RBF-based MPM is designed to overcome the unphysical More >