Convergence analysis of meshfree approximation schemes (Q2903039)

The authors derive a general framework for the analysis of meshfree schemes. Moreover, as an application the analysis of the so-called local maximum-entropy (LME) scheme of \textit{M. Arroyo} and \textit{M. Ortiz} [Lect. Notes Comput. Sci. Eng. 57, 1--16 (2007; Zbl 1114.65136)] is presented as well. The authors provide conditions for the convergence of \(n\)-consistent schemes in the Sobolev spaces. As a direct application of the general theory the convergence of the LME in \(W^{1,p}_{\mathrm{loc}}\) has been proven. More precisely, the authors show that the numerical error of the LME scheme depends linearly on a parameter \(h\) that measures the density of the point set. The theoretical results are consistent with the results of the numerical experiments. In addition the analysis presented in the paper indicates how to choose the so-called temperature parameter to obtain optimal convergence. A carefull analysis has been performed to control and estimate the behaviour near the boundary.