Abstract
Abstract The element free Galerkin (EFG) method is a promising method for solving flow problems, but it meets the difficulty of volumetric locking for solving the incompressible flow problems. In this paper, a mixed EFG method is proposed for solving the steady incompressible flow problems, which avoids the volumetric locking and inherits the meshfree properties. The method employs two sets of nodes, one for the velocity approximation and the other for the pressure approximation. Specially, the ratio between the velocity node number and the pressure node number is taken as the only indicator for the locking behavior of the mixed EFG method. And inf–sup tests are carried out to investigate the relationship between the ratio and locking behavior. By two numerical examples, the accuracy, rate of convergence and efficiency of the mixed EFG method are also carefully studied. The results show that the accuracy, convergence and efficiency of the mixed EFG method are superior to that of the time-related fractional step methods.
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