Meshless Galerkin methods using radial basis functions

Wendland, Holger

doi:10.1090/S0025-5718-99-01102-3

Meshless Galerkin methods using radial basis functions
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Math. Comp. 68 (1999), 1521-1531 Request permission

Abstract:

We combine the theory of radial basis functions with the field of Galerkin methods to solve partial differential equations. After a general description of the method we show convergence and derive error estimates for smooth problems in arbitrary dimensions.

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