Affiliations: [a] Department ECE, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
40506, USA. Tel.: +1 859 257 8042; Fax: +1 859 257 3092; E-mail:
lxuan0@engr.uky.edu
| [b] Department ECE, Michigan State University, East
Lansing, MI 48824, USA. Tel.:+1 517 355 5066; Fax: +1 517 353 1980; E-mail:
{bshanker, zengzhiw, udpal}@egr.msu.edu
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Abstract: Compared with the conventional finite element method that relies on
an underlying mesh and element-node connectivity to describe the geometry,
meshless method shows its advantage in mesh simplification, tight crack
representation and re-meshing process. An effective numerical implementation of
the meshless method uses the Galerkin technique and is referred to as the
element-free Galerkin (EFG) method. In this paper, the EFG method is applied to
a field of electromagnetic computation, namely, simulation of pulsed eddy
current testing. The model is validated against analytical solutions.
