A Particle-Partition of Unity Method for the Solution of Elliptic, Parabolic, and Hyperbolic PDEs

  • Authors:
  • Michael Griebel;Marc Alexander Schweitzer

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

In this paper, we present a meshless discretization technique for instationary convection-diffusion problems. It is based on operator splitting, the method of characteristics, and a generalized partition of unity method. We focus on the discretization process and its quality. The method may be used as an h-version or a p-version. Even for general particle distributions, the convergence behavior of the different versions corresponds to that of the respective version of the finite element method on a uniform grid. We discuss the implementational aspects of the proposed method. Furthermore, we present the results of numerical examples, where we considered instationary convection-diffusion, instationary diffusion, linear advection, and elliptic problems.