Imposing various boundary conditions on positive definite kernels

Abstract

This work is motivated by the frequent occurrence of boundary value problems with various boundary conditions in the modeling of some problems in engineering and physical science. Here we propose a new technique to force the positive definite kernels such as some radial basis functions to satisfy the boundary conditions exactly. It can improve the applications of existing methods based on positive definite kernels and radial basis functions especially the pseudospectral radial basis function method for handling the differential equations with more complicated boundary conditions. The proposed method is applied to a singularly perturbed steady-state convection-diffusion problem, two and three dimensional Poisson's equations with various boundary conditions.