An improved node moving technique for adaptive analysis using collocated discrete least squares meshless method

Abstract

In this paper, an improved node moving technique was developed for adaptive solution of some flow problems. Collocated Discrete Least Squares Meshless (CDLSM) method was applied for simulation. This method is a truly meshless method and also enjoys the symmetric and positive-definite property. Then, an improved node moving technique was developed based on the spring analogy. In this mechanism, each node was assumed to be connected to its neighboring nodes via some virtual springs. Then, higher values of stiffness were allocated to the springs located at higher error areas. In the previously published works, the corresponding system of equations was assumed to be linear. In this work, first, it was shown that this assumption may lead to inaccurate results in some cases and then, an improved method was proposed considering the nonlinear nature of the system of equations. Some numerical examples were used to illustrate the ability of the proposed node moving technique for some simple examples and benchmark problems in the Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) context. The Results of the study showed a considerable improvement in comparison with those of previously published works.