Scattered node compact finite difference-type formulas generated from radial basis functions

  • Authors:
  • Grady B. Wright;Bengt Fornberg

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Mathematics, University of Utah, 233 Widstoe Building, Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0090, USA;Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309-0526, USA

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Computational Physics
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

In standard equispaced finite difference (FD) formulas, symmetries can make the order of accuracy relatively high compared to the number of nodes in the FD stencil. With scattered nodes, such symmetries are no longer available. The generalization of compact FD formulas that we propose for scattered nodes and radial basis functions (RBFs) achieves the goal of still keeping the number of stencil nodes small without a similar reduction in accuracy. We analyze the accuracy of these new compact RBF-FD formulas by applying them to some model problems, and study the effects of the shape parameter that arises in, for example, the multiquadric radial function.