A Meshless RBF Method for Linear and Nonlinear Sobolev Equations

Radial Basis Functions are considered as important tools for scattered data interpolation. Collocation procedure is a powerful technique in meshless methods which is developed on the assumption of radial basis functions to solve partial differential equations in high dimensional domains having complex shapes. In this study, a numerical method, implementing the RBF collocation method and finite differences, is employed for solving not only 2-D linear, but also nonlinear Sobolev equations. First order finite differences and Crank-Nicolson method are applied to discretize the temporal part. Using the energy method, it is shown that the applied time-discrete approach is convergent in terms of time variable with order O (Δt). The spatial parts are approximated by implementation of two-dimensional MQ-RBF interpolation resulting in a linear system of algebraic equations. By solving the linear system, approximate solutions are determined. The proposed scheme is verified by solving different problems and error norms L∞ and L2 are computed. Computations accurately demonstrated the efficiency of the suggested method.