Seminar series
Date
Thu, 13 May 2010
Time
14:00 -
15:00
Location
3WS SR
Speaker
Dr Francisco Bernal
Organisation
OCCAM, University of Oxford
Meshless (or meshfree) methods are a relatively new numerical approach for the solution of ordinary- and partial differential equations. They offer the geometrical flexibility of finite elements but without requiring connectivity from the discretization support (ie a mesh). Meshless methods based on the collocation of radial basis functions (RBF methods) are particularly easy to code, and have a number of theoretical advantages as well as practical drawbacks. In this talk, an adaptive RBF scheme is presented for a novel application, namely the solution of (a rather broad class of) delayed- and neutral differential equations.