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A least squares radial basis function finite difference method with improved stability properties

Numerical Analysis 2021-03-16 v2 Numerical Analysis

Abstract

Localized collocation methods based on radial basis functions (RBFs) for elliptic problems appear to be non-robust in the presence of Neumann boundary conditions. In this paper we overcome this issue by formulating the RBF-generated finite difference method in a discrete least-squares setting instead. This allows us to prove high-order convergence under node refinement and to numerically verify that the least-squares formulation is more accurate and robust than the collocation formulation. The implementation effort for the modified algorithm is comparable to that for the collocation method.

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@article{arxiv.2003.03132,
  title  = {A least squares radial basis function finite difference method with improved stability properties},
  author = {Igor Tominec and Elisabeth Larsson and Alfa Heryudono},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2003.03132},
  year   = {2021}
}
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