Application of the method of fundamental solutions to 2D and 3D Signorini problems

This paper presents an application of the method of fundamental solutions (MFS) for the numerical solution of 2D and 3D Signorini problems. In our application, by using a projection technique to tackle the nonlinear Signorini boundary inequality conditions, the original Signorini problem is transformed into a sequence of linear elliptic boundary value problems and then solved by the MFS. Convergence and efficiency of the present MFS is proved theoretically and verified numerically.