abstract: We present an FCT stabilized Radial Basis Function (RBF)-Finite Dierence (FD) method for the numerical solution of convection dominated problems. The proposed algorithm is designed to main- tain mass conservation and to guarantee positivity of the solution for an almost random placement of scattered data nodes. The method can be applicable both for problems dened in a domain or if equipped with level set techniques, on a stationary manifold. We demonstrate the numerical behavior of the method by performing numerical tests for the solid-body rotation benchmark in a unit square and for a transport problem along a curve implicitly prescribed by a level set function. Extension of the proposed method to higher dimensions is straightforward and easily realizable.
In collaboration with: Oleg Davydov, Dmitri Kuzmin, Alexander Westermann and Stefan Turek