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This paper presents a meshless numerical scheme to solve the inverse heat source time dependent problem. Fundamental solutions of heat equations and radial basis functions (RBFs) are used to obtain a numerical solution. Since the coefficient matrix may be ill-conditioned, the Tikhonov regularization (TR) method is employed to solve the resulting system of linear equations. Therefore, the generalized cross-validation (GCV) criterion is applied to choose a regularization parameter. The accuracy and efficiency of the proposed method is illustrated by some numerical examples. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract: In this paper, the static and free vibration analysis of composite plates are performed, using a layerwise deformation theory and multiquadrics discretization. This meshless discretization method considers radial basis functions as the approximation method for both the equations of motion and the boundary conditions. The combination of this layerwise theory and the multiquadrics discretization method allows a very accurate prediction of the natural frequencies. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

Abstract: A subdomain variational inequality and its meshless linear complementary formulation are developed in the present paper for solving two-dimensional contact problems. The subdomain variational inequality will be defined in detail. The meshless method is based on a local weighted residual method with the Heaviside step function as the weighting function over a local subdomain and radial basis functions as trial functions for interpolation. Three different radial basis functions (RBFs), i.e. Multiquadrics (MQ), Gaussian (EXP) and Thin Plate Splines (TPS) are examined and the selection of their shape parameters is studied based on 2D solid stress problems with closed-form solutions. The developed meshless/linear complementary method is applied to solve two frictionless contact problems. For the RBFs, it has been found that the TPS shape parameter is not sensitive to nodal distance and a value of 4 is found as a good choice for TPS from this research. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]