Numerical Simulation of Partial Differential Equations via Local Meshless Method

Abstract

In this paper, numerical simulation of one, two and three dimensional partial differential equations (PDEs) are obtained by local meshless method using radial basis functions (RBFs). Both local and global meshless collocation procedures are used for spatial discretization, which convert the given PDEs into a system of ODEs. Multiquadric, Gaussian and inverse quadratic RBFs are used for spatial discretization. The obtained system of ODEs has been solved by different time integrators. The salient feature of the local meshless method (LMM) is that it does not require mesh in the problem domain and also far less sensitive to the variation of shape parameter as compared to the global meshless method (GMM). Both rectangular and non rectangular domains with uniform and scattered nodal points are considered. Accuracy, efficacy and ease implementation of the proposed method are shown via test problems.