Using RBF-Generated Quadrature Rules to Solve Nonlocal Anomalous Diffusion

Using RBF-Generated Quadrature Rules to Solve Nonlocal Anomalous Diffusion

Year:    2018

Author:    Isaac Lyngaas, Janet Peterson

International Journal of Numerical Analysis and Modeling, Vol. 15 (2018), Iss. 4-5 : pp. 628–648

Abstract

The goal of this work is to solve nonlocal diffusion and anomalous diffusion problems by approximating the nonlocal integral appearing in the integro-differential equation by novel quadrature rules. These quadrature rules are derived so that they are exact for a nonlocal integral evaluated at translations of a given radial basis function (RBF). We first illustrate how to derive RBF-generated quadrature rules in one dimension and demonstrate their accuracy for approximating a nonlocal integral. Once the quadrature rules are derived as a preprocessing step, we apply them to approximate the nonlocal integral in a nonlocal diffusion problem and when the temporal derivative is approximated by a standard difference approximation a system of difference equations are obtained. This approach is extended to two dimensions where both a circular and rectangular nonlocal neighborhood are considered. Numerical results are provided and we compare our results to published results solving nonlocal problems using standard finite element methods.

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Journal Article Details

Publisher Name:    Global Science Press

Language:    English

DOI:    https://doi.org/2018-IJNAM-12535

International Journal of Numerical Analysis and Modeling, Vol. 15 (2018), Iss. 4-5 : pp. 628–648

Published online:    2018-01

AMS Subject Headings:    Global Science Press

Copyright:    COPYRIGHT: © Global Science Press

Pages:    21

Keywords:    Nonlocal anomalous diffusion radial basis functions RBF quadrature.

Author Details

Isaac Lyngaas

Janet Peterson