A selective list of meshfree developments in computational mechanics are discussed in this analysis of formulations based on moving least squares, smooth particle hydrodynamics, and generalized finite differences—exemplary applications in acoustics, fluid and solid mechanics, and numerical and experimental data smoothing.
Piotr Breitkopf lectures in the 'Laboratoire de Mecanique Roberval' at the Technological University of Compiegne, France. Antonio Huerta is Professor of Applied Mathematics in the 'Laboratori de Calcul Numeric' at the University Polytechnic of Catalunya, Spain.