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Stability analysis of particle methods with corrected derivatives
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Stability analysis of particle methods with corrected derivatives

T Belytschko and Shaoping Xiao
Computers & mathematics with applications (1987), Vol.43(3), pp.329-350
2002
DOI: 10.1016/S0898-1221(01)00290-5
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Abstract

The stability of discretizations by particle methods with corrected derivatives is analyzed. It is shown that the standard particle method (which is equivalent to the element-free Galerkin method with an Eulerian kernel and nodal quadrature) has two sources of instability: 1. rank deficiency of the discrete equations, and 2. distortion of the material instability. The latter leads to the so-called tensile instability. It is shown that a Lagrangian kernel with the addition of stress points eliminates both instabilities. Examples that verify the stability of the new formulation are given.
Kernel Particle methods Stability

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