WSEAS Transactions on Mathematics
Print ISSN: 1109-2769, E-ISSN: 2224-2880
Volume 20, 2021
A Hybrid Shapeless Radial Basis Function Applied with the Dual Reciprocity Boundary Element Method
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Abstract: The so-called Dual Reciprocity Boundary Element Method (DRBEM) has been a popular
alternative scheme designed to alleviate problems encountered when using the traditional BEM for
numerically solving engineering problems that are described by PDEs. The method starts with writing
the right-hand-side of Poisson equation as a summation of a pre-chosen multivariate function known as
‘Radial Basis Function (RBF)’. Nevertheless, a common undesirable feature of using RBFs is the
appearance of the so-called ‘shape parameter’ whose value greatly affects the solution accuracy. In this
work, a new form of RBF containing no shape (so that it can be called ‘shapefree/shapeless’) is invented,
proposed and applied in conjunction with DRBEM is validated numerically. The solutions obtained are
compared against both exact ones and those presented in literature where appropriate, for validation. It
is found that reasonably and comparatively good approximated solutions of PDEs can still be obtained
without the difficulty of choosing a good shape for RBF used
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Keywords: Dual reciprocity, Boundary element method, Shapeless parameter, Radial basis function,
Partial differential equation, Numerical solution
Pages: 159-170
DOI: 10.37394/23206.2021.20.17