A meshfree method based on the radial basis functions for solution of two-dimensional fractional evolution equation

In the current work, numerical solution of a two-dimensional fractional evolution equation has been investigated by using two different aspects of strong form meshless methods. In the first method a time discretization approach and a numerical technique based on the convolution sum are employed to approximate the appearing time derivative and fractional integral operator, respectively. It has been proven analytically that the time discretization scheme is unconditionally stable. Then a meshfree collocation method based on the radial basis functions is used for solving resulting time-independent discretization problem. As the second approach, a fully Kansa's meshfree method based on the Gaussian radial basis function is formulated and well-used directly for solving the governing problem. In this technique an explicit formula to approximate the fractional integral operator is computed. The given techniques are used to solve two examples of problem. The computed approximate solutions are reported through the tables and figures, also these results are compared together and with the other available results. The presented results demonstrate the validity, efficiency and accuracy of the formulated techniques. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.