Multilevel RBF collocation method for the fourth-order thin plate problem

The radial basis functions meshfree method is a research method for thin plate problem which has gradually developed into a more mature meshfree method. It includes finite element, radial basis functions meshfree collocation method, etc. In this paper, we introduce the multilevel radial basis function collocation method for the fourth-order thin plate problem. We use nonsymmetric Kansa multilevel radial basis function collocation method to solve the fourth-order thin plate problem. Two numerical examples based on Wendland’s [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] functions are given to examine that the convergence of the multilevel radial basis function collocation method which is good for solving the fourth-order thin plate problem.