Solving partial differential equations on (evolving) surfaces with radial basis functions

Autor: Jens Künemund, Holger Wendland
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Advances in Computational Mathematics. 46
ISSN: 1572-9044
1019-7168
DOI: 10.1007/s10444-020-09803-0
Popis: Meshfree, kernel-based spatial discretisations are recent tools to discretise partial differential equations on surfaces. The goals of this paper are to analyse and compare three different meshfree kernel-based methods for the spatial discretisation of semi-linear parabolic partial differential equations (PDEs) on surfaces, i.e. on smooth, compact, connected, orientable, and closed (d − 1)-dimensional submanifolds of $\mathbb {R}^{d}$ . The three different methods are collocation, the Galerkin, and the RBF-FD method, respectively. Their advantages and drawbacks are discussed, and previously known theoretical results are extended and numerically verified. Finally, a significant part of this paper is devoted to solving PDEs on evolving surfaces with RBF-FD, which has not been done previously.
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