TY - JOUR T1 - Using RBF-Generated Quadrature Rules to Solve Nonlocal Anomalous Diffusion AU - Lyngaas , Isaac AU - Peterson , Janet JO - International Journal of Numerical Analysis and Modeling VL - 4-5 SP - 628 EP - 648 PY - 2018 DA - 2018/04 SN - 15 DO - http://doi.org/ UR - https://global-sci.org/intro/article_detail/ijnam/12535.html KW - Nonlocal, anomalous diffusion, radial basis functions, RBF, quadrature. AB -

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.