A Galerkin-reproducing kernel method: Application to the 2D nonlinear coupled Burgers' equations

The paper introduces a Galerkin method in the reproducing kernel Hilbert space. It is implemented as a meshless method based on spatial trial spaces spanned by the Newton basis functions in the "native" Hilbert space of the reproducing kernel. For the time-dependent PDEs it leads to a system of ordinary differential equations. The method is used for solving the 2D nonlinear coupled Burgers' equations having Dirichlet and mixed boundary conditions. The numerical solutions for different values of Reynolds number (Re) are compared with analytical solutions as well as other numerical methods. It is shown that the proposed method is efficient, accurate and stable for flow with reasonably high Re in the case of Dirichlet boundary conditions. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.