Trefftz and Collocation Methods

This book covers a class of numerical methods that are generally referred to as Collocation methods'. Different from the Finite Element and the Finite Difference methods, the discretization and approximation of the collocation method is based on a set of unstructured points in space. This meshless' feature is attractive because it eliminates the bookkeeping requirements of the element' based methods. This text discusses several types of collocation methods including the radial basis function met