An introduction to meshfree methods and their programming

Friendly and straightforward presentation and beginner orientated Provides the fundamentals of numerical analysis that are particularly important to meshfree methods. Wide coverage of meshfree methods: EFG, RPIM, MLPG, LRPIM, MWS and collocation methods Detailed comparison case studies for many existing meshfree methods Well-tested computer source codes are attached with useful descriptions and readily test examples Soft copy of these source codes are available also at http://www.nus.edu.sg/ACES.