Comparison of SPH and FEM in thermomechanical coupled problems

Abstract

After almost 40 years of development, meshless methods are still treated as "new" numerical technique. Smoothed Particles Hydrodynamics (SPH) is not an exception. Number of publications shows still new applications of the method. One of such rather new area is analysis of coupled thermal - mechanical field. In the article, authors show results of comparative analysis of SPH and Finite Element Method (FEM) aimed to investigate usefulness of meshless approach in analysis of disk brake and lining interaction.