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We propose a novel collocation method with Radial Basis Functions for the solution of the inhomogeneous parabolic equation \((\partial _{t}+\mathcal {L})u(\cdot ,t)=f\) on \(\Omega \subseteq \mathbb {R}^{d}\), with \(\mathcal {L}\) elliptic operator. As original contribution, we rewrite the solution in terms of the exponential operator \(\exp (-t\mathcal {L})\), which is then computed through the Padè-Chebyshev approximation of the 1D Gaussian function. The resulting meshless solver uniformly converges to the ground-truth solution, as the degree of the rational polynomial increases, and is independent of the evaluation of the spectrum of \(\mathcal {L}\) (i.e., spectrum-free), of the discretisation of the temporal derivative, and of user-defined parameters. Since the solution is approximated as a linear combination of Radial Basis Functions, we study the conditions on the generating kernel that guarantee the \(\mathcal {L}\)-differentiability of the meshless solution. In our tests, we compare the proposed meshless and spectrum-free solvers with the meshless spectral eigen-decomposition and the meshless \(\theta \)-method on the heat equation in a transient regime. With respect to these previous works, at small scales the Padè-Chebyshev method has a higher numerical stability and approximation accuracy, which are expressed in terms of the selected degree of the rational polynomial and of the spectral properties of the matrix that discretises the parabolic operator.
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We thank the Reviewers for their thorough review and constructive comments, which helped us to improve the technical part and presentation of the revised paper. This work is partially supported by the H2020 ERC Advanced Grant CHANGE.
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Patané, G. Spectrum-Free and Meshless Solvers of Parabolic PDEs. J Sci Comput 88, 86 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10915-021-01604-x
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