Meshfree Methods: Moving Beyond the Finite Element Method, Second Edition

With 70% new material, this second edition reflects significant advances made in the field since the publication of its predecessor. It continues to systematically cover the most widely used meshfree methods. This edition includes much more details on fundamental concepts and theories, more detailed discussion on error estimation and adaptive analysis using meshfree methods, developments on combined meshfree/FEM models, and comparison studies using meshfree and FEM. It also contains a new discussion on special properties of meshfree methods, including stability, convergence, accurate, efficiency, and bound property. The latest version of MFree2D © is freely available for download online.