Collocation method for one dimensional nonlocal diffusion equations

Abstract

In this paper, the collocation method for solving one dimensional steady state and time dependent nonlocal diffusion equations is analyzed. The difficulty of applying collocation method to nonlocal diffusion equations comes from the singularity of the kernel. If the kernel is weakly singular, however, if the kernel is not integrable in Riemann sense. So that the Hadamard finite part integral is introduced to overcome this difficulty. For analysis and performance, a “balance” term is added to discretize the nonlocal operator. Numerical results validate the theorems.