A meshless pseudospectral approach appliedto problems with weak discontinuities

In this paper, a meshless pseudospectral method is applied to solve problems possessingweak discontinuities on interfaces. To discretize a differential problem, a global inter-polation by radial basis functions is used with the collocation procedure. This leads toobtaining the differentiation matrix for the global approximation of the differential opera-tor from the analyzed equation. Using this matrix, the discretization of the problem isstraightforward. To deal with the differential equations with discontinuous coefficients onthe interface, the meshless pseudospectral formulation is used with the so-called subdo-main approach, where proper continuity conditions are used to obtain accurate results.In the present paper, the differentiation matrix for this method is derived and the choiceof a proper value of the shape parameter for radial functions in the context of the subdo-main approach is studied. The numerical tests show the effectiveness of the method whenusing regular or unstructured node distribution. They confirm that the approach preserveswell-known advantages of the radial basis function collocation method, i.e., rapid conver-gence, simplicity of the implementation and extends its usage for problems with weakdiscontinuity.

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Opracowanie rekordu ze środków MEiN, umowa nr SONP/SP/546092/2022 w ramach programu "Społeczna odpowiedzialność nauki" - moduł: Popularyzacja nauki i promocja sportu (2022-2023).