Publisher's Synopsis
The numerical treatment of partial differential equations with particle methods and meshfree discretization techniques is a very active research field both in the mathematics and engineering community.;Due to their independence of a mesh, particle schemes and meshfree methods can deal with large geometric changes of the domain more easily than classical discretization techniques.;Furthermore, meshfree methods offer a promising approach for the coupling of particle models to continuous models.;This volume of LNCSE is a collection of the papers from the proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Meshfree Methods held in September 2003 in Bonn.;The articles address the different meshfree methods (SPH, PUM, GFEM, EFGM, RKPM, etc.) and their application in applied mathematics, physics and engineering.;The volume is intended to foster this new and exciting area of interdisciplinary research and to present recent advances and results in this field.
