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A Stabilized RBF Collocation Scheme for Neumann Type Boundary Value Problems
CMES - Computer Modeling in Engineering and Sciences
  • Nicolas Ali Libre, Missouri University of Science and Technology
  • Arezoo Emdadi, Missouri University of Science and Technology
  • Edward J. Kansa
  • Mohammad Rahimian
  • Mohammad Shekarchi
Abstract

The numerical solution of partial differential equations (PDEs) with Neumann boundary conditions (BCs) resulted from strong form collocation scheme are typically much poorer in accuracy compared to those with pure Dirichlet BCs. In this paper, we show numerically that the reason of the reduced accuracy is that Neumann BC requires the approximation of the spatial derivatives at Neumann boundaries which are significantly less accurate than approximation of main function. Therefore, we utilize boundary treatment schemes that based upon increasing the accuracy of spatial derivatives at boundaries. Increased accuracy of the spatial derivative approximation can be achieved by h-refmement reducing the spacing between discretization points or by increasing the multiquadric shape parameter, c. Increasing the MQ shape parameter is very computationally cost effective, but leads to increased ill-conditioning. We have implemented an improved version of the truncated singular value decomposition (IT-SVD) originated by Volokh and Vilnay (2000) that projects very small singular values into the null space, producing a well conditioned system of equations. To assess the proposed refinement scheme, elliptic PDEs with different boundary conditions are analyzed. Comparisons that made with analytical solution reveal superior accuracy and computational efficiency of the IT-SVD solutions.

Department(s)
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
Keywords and Phrases
  • Boundary value problem,
  • Improved truncated singular value decomposition,
  • Meshfree,
  • Multiquadric,
  • Neumann condition,
  • RBF collocation,
  • Stability,
  • Strong form
Document Type
Article - Journal
Document Version
Final Version
File Type
text
Language(s)
English
Rights
© 2008 Tech Science Press, All rights reserved.
Publication Date
1-1-2008
Publication Date
01 Jan 2008
Citation Information
Nicolas Ali Libre, Arezoo Emdadi, Edward J. Kansa, Mohammad Rahimian, et al.. "A Stabilized RBF Collocation Scheme for Neumann Type Boundary Value Problems" CMES - Computer Modeling in Engineering and Sciences Vol. 24 Iss. 1 (2008) p. 61 - 80 ISSN: 1526-1492
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/arezoo-emdadi/8/