Journal
JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL PHYSICS
Volume 228, Issue 12, Pages 4606-4624Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2009.03.025
Keywords
Numerical solution; Initial and boundary value problems; Meshless collocation approach; Radial basis function; Local collocation; Implicit time stepping scheme
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In this work an extension is proposed to the Local Hermitian Interpolation (LHI) method: a meshless numerical method based on interpolation with small and heavily overlapping radial basis function (RBF) systems. This extension to the LHI method uses interpolation functions which themselves satisfy the partial differential equation (PDE) to be solved. In this way, a much improved reconstruction of partial derivatives can be obtained, resulting in significantly improved accuracy in many cases. The implementation algorithm is described, and is validated via three convection-diffusion-reaction problems, for steady and transient situations. A Crank-Nicolson implicit time stepping technique is used for the time-dependent problems. In the proposed approach, a form of 'analytical upwinding' is implicitly implemented by the use of the partial differential operator of the governing equation in the interpolation function, which includes the desired information about the convective velocity field. The implicit upwinding scheme intrinsic to the proposed numerical approach is tested by solving a one-dimensional travelling front problem at Peclet numbers of 500, 1000, 2000, 5000 and infinity, which corresponds to a shock front in the case of infinity. In addition, the accuracy of the numerical scheme is validated against a one-dimensional steady state solution exhibiting strong boundary layer effects, and also against a steady and a transient three-dimensional convection-diffusion problem on irregular datasets. All the test cases are validated against the corresponding analytical solutions. Finally, the effect of various interpolation stencil configurations is investigated, and some important limitations on local data-centre distribution are identified. (C) 2009 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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