A Multivariate Spline based Collocation Method for Numerical Solution of Partial Differential Equations

09/20/2021
by   Ming-Jun Lai, et al.
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We propose a collocation method based on multivariate polynomial splines over triangulation or tetrahedralization for the numerical solution of partial differential equations. We start with a detailed explanation of the method for the Poisson equation and then extend the study to the second-order elliptic PDE in non-divergence form. We shall show that the numerical solution can approximate the exact PDE solution very well. Then we present a large amount of numerical experimental results to demonstrate the performance of the method over the 2D and 3D settings. In addition, we present a comparison with the existing multivariate spline methods in <cit.> and <cit.> to show that the new method produces a similar and sometimes more accurate approximation in a more efficient fashion.

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