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In the reproducing kernel particle method (RKPM), and meshless methods in general, enforcement of essential boundary conditions is awkward as the approximations do not satisfy the Kronecker delta condition and are not admissible in the Galerkin formulation as they fail to vanish at essential boundaries. Typically, Lagrange multipliers, modified variational principles, or a coupling procedure with finite elements have been used to circumvent these shortcomings.
Two methods of generating admissible meshless approximations, are presented; one in which the RKPM correction function equals zero at the boundary, and another in which the domain of the window function is selected such that the approximate vanishes at the boundary. An extension of the RKPM dilation parameter is also introduced, providing the capability to generate approximations with arbitrarily shaped supports. This feature is particularly useful for generating approximations near boundaries that conform to the geometry of the boundary. Additional issues such as degeneration of shape functions from 2D to 1D and moment matrix conditioning are also addressed.
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Communicated by S. N. Atluri, 2 August 1996
The support of this research by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) to Northwestern University is gratefully acknowledged.
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Gosz, J., Liu, W.K. Admissible approximations for essential boundary conditions in the reproducing kernel particle method. Computational Mechanics 19, 120–135 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02824850
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