NONE 20260715120348161 wseas/wseas content-registration-form@crossref.org content-registration-form International Journal of Applied Mathematics Computational Science and Systems Engineering 2766-9823 Shrikrishna Dasari Department of Mathematics, Mehsana Urban Institute of Sciences, Ganpat University, Mehsana, Gujarat-384012, INDIA https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8638-0398 Amit Parikh Banaskantha District Kelavani Mandal G D Modi Vidya Sankul Palanpur - 385001, INDIA https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9711-9627 This technical paper describes a high-fidelity numerical framework for modeling shallow water solitary wave behavior described by the Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) equation via a MATLAB implementation of the Radial Basis Function Pseudo-Spectral (RBF-PS) method employing Gaussian basis functions and the adaptive ode113 time integrator. A systematic grid-refinement study is conducted, which reveals numerical ill-conditioning when fixed RBF shape parameters are employed. 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