Mesh-Free Methods for Dynamic Problems. Incompressibility and Large Strain 

Vidal Seguí, Yolanda (Date of defense: 2005-01-17)

This thesis makes two noteworthy contributions in the are of mesh-free methods: a Pseudo-Divergence-Free (PDF) Element Free Galerkin (EFG) method which alleviates the volumetric locking and a Stabilized Updated Lagrangian ...