On choosing a radial basis function and a shape parameter when solving a convective PDE on a sphere

DOI10.1016/j.jcp.2007.11.016zbMath1135.65039WikidataQ57984508 ScholiaQ57984508MaRDI QIDQ2479479

Bengt Fornberg, Cécile Piret

Publication date: 26 March 2008

Published in: Journal of Computational Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2007.11.016

zbMATH Keywords

RBF; numerical examples; sphere; radial basis functions; spherical harmonics; spectral methods; shape parameter; Wendland functions; RBF-QR method

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

65M06: Finite difference methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs

65M70: Spectral, collocation and related methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs

65D25: Numerical differentiation

35L45: Initial value problems for first-order hyperbolic systems

35F10: Initial value problems for linear first-order PDEs

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Uses Software

• Matlab
• chammp

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