Enhancing finite differences with radial basis functions: experiments on the Navier-Stokes equations

DOI10.1016/j.jcp.2016.02.078zbMath1349.76460OpenAlexW2324019603MaRDI QIDQ2375216

Louis J. Wicker, Natasha Flyer, Gregory A. Barnett

Publication date: 5 December 2016

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2016.02.078

zbMATH Keywords

splinespolynomialsradial basis functionsfinite differencesNavier-StokesRBF-FD

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Numerical computation using splines (65D07) Finite difference methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M20) Finite difference methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M06) Meteorology and atmospheric physics (86A10) Compressible fluids and gas dynamics (76Nxx)

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Uses Software

• Matlab
• rbf_qr

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