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An Improved Material Point Method with Aggregated and Smoothed Bernstein Functions

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  • Zheng Zhu

    (State Key Laboratory of Hydrology-Water Resources and Hydraulic Engineering, Hohai University, Nanjing 210024, China
    College of Water Conservancy and Hydropower Engineering, Hohai University, Nanjing 210024, China)

  • Tengfei Bao

    (State Key Laboratory of Hydrology-Water Resources and Hydraulic Engineering, Hohai University, Nanjing 210024, China
    College of Water Conservancy and Hydropower Engineering, Hohai University, Nanjing 210024, China
    College of Hydraulic & Environmental Engineering, China Three Gorges University, Yichang 443002, China)

  • Xi Zhu

    (State Key Laboratory of Hydrology-Water Resources and Hydraulic Engineering, Hohai University, Nanjing 210024, China
    College of Water Conservancy and Hydropower Engineering, Hohai University, Nanjing 210024, China)

  • Jian Gong

    (State Key Laboratory of Hydrology-Water Resources and Hydraulic Engineering, Hohai University, Nanjing 210024, China
    College of Water Conservancy and Hydropower Engineering, Hohai University, Nanjing 210024, China)

  • Yuhan Hu

    (State Key Laboratory of Hydrology-Water Resources and Hydraulic Engineering, Hohai University, Nanjing 210024, China
    College of Water Conservancy and Hydropower Engineering, Hohai University, Nanjing 210024, China)

  • Jingying Zhang

    (State Key Laboratory of Hydrology-Water Resources and Hydraulic Engineering, Hohai University, Nanjing 210024, China
    College of Water Conservancy and Hydropower Engineering, Hohai University, Nanjing 210024, China)

Abstract

Nodal shape functions and their gradients are vital in transferring physical information within the material point method (MPM). Their continuity is related to numerical stability and accuracy, and their support domain size affects computational efficiency. In this paper, a scheme of aggregated and smoothed Bernstein functions is proposed to improve the MPM. In detail, the Bernstein polynomials are smoothed with a convolution reformation to eliminate the cell crossing error, and an aggregation strategy is implemented to cut down the node amount required for field probing. Hierarchical MPM variants are obtained with choices of original Bernstein polynomials and degrees of smoothing. Numerical examples show that mass, momentum, and energy conservations are all well met, and no cell crossing noise exists. In addition, solution accuracy and numerical stability are significantly improved in large deformation problems.

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  • Zheng Zhu & Tengfei Bao & Xi Zhu & Jian Gong & Yuhan Hu & Jingying Zhang, 2023. "An Improved Material Point Method with Aggregated and Smoothed Bernstein Functions," Mathematics, MDPI, vol. 11(4), pages 1-19, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jmathe:v:11:y:2023:i:4:p:907-:d:1064542
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