Smoothed finite element methods (S-FEM): an overview and recent developments

W Zeng, GR Liu - Archives of Computational Methods in Engineering, 2018 - Springer
The smoothed finite element methods (S-FEM) are a family of methods formulated through
carefully designed combinations of the standard FEM and some of the techniques from the …

Smoothed particle hydrodynamics and its applications in fluid-structure interactions

A Zhang, P Sun, F Ming, A Colagrossi - Journal of Hydrodynamics, Ser. B, 2017 - Elsevier
In ocean engineering, the applications are usually related to a free surface which brings so
many interesting physical phenomena (eg water waves, impacts, splashing jets, etc.). To …

Coupling edge-based smoothed finite element method with smoothed particle hydrodynamics for fluid structure interaction problems

T Long, C Huang, D Hu, M Liu - Ocean Engineering, 2021 - Elsevier
Numerical simulation of fluid structure interaction (FSI) problems is one of the most
challenging topics in computational fluid dynamics. In this paper, coupling edge-based …

An overview on meshfree methods: for computational solid mechanics

GR Liu - International Journal of Computational Methods, 2016 - World Scientific
This review paper presents a methodological study on possible and existing meshfree
methods for solving the partial differential equations (PDEs) governing solid mechanics …

A peridynamics-immersed boundary-lattice Boltzmann method for fluid-structure interaction analysis

F Yang, X Gu, X Xia, Q Zhang - Ocean Engineering, 2022 - Elsevier
Fluid-structure interaction problems (FSI) are ubiquitous in nature and industrial production.
Numerical simulation has been taken as an effective method for fluid-structure interaction …

Phase field simulation for fracture behavior of hyperelastic material at large deformation based on edge-based smoothed finite element method

F Peng, W Huang, ZQ Zhang, TF Guo, YE Ma - Engineering Fracture …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Phase Field Method (PFM) has remarkable performance in simulating crack
patterns with complex topology and the edge-based smoothed finite element method (ES …

Numerical investigations on the large deformation behaviour of ring stiffened cylindrical shell subjected to underwater explosion

RPS Praba, K Ramajeyathilagam - Applied Ocean Research, 2020 - Elsevier
Ring stiffened cylindrical shells find wide applications in marine vehicles such as
submersibles, submarine, autonomous underwater vehicles (AUV) and torpedoes. The …

The smoothed finite element method (S-FEM): A framework for the design of numerical models for desired solutions

GR Liu - Frontiers of structural and civil engineering, 2019 - Springer
The smoothed finite element method (S-FEM) was originated by GR Liu by combining some
meshfree techniques with the well-established standard finite element method (FEM). It has …

A three dimensional immersed smoothed finite element method (3D IS-FEM) for fluid–structure interaction problems

ZQ Zhang, GR Liu, BC Khoo - Computational Mechanics, 2013 - Springer
A three-dimensional immersed smoothed finite element method (3D IS-FEM) using four-
node tetrahedral element is proposed to solve 3D fluid–structure interaction (FSI) problems …

A variational multiscale immersed meshfree method for fluid structure interactive systems involving shock waves

TH Huang, JS Chen, MR Tupek, FN Beckwith… - Computer Methods in …, 2022 - Elsevier
We develop an immersed meshfree method under a variational multiscale framework for
modeling fluid–structure interactive systems involving shock waves. The proposed method …