Numerical Solution of Heat Equation in Polar Cylindrical Coordinates by the Meshless Method of Lines

Table 1

Convergence of the method corresponding to Example 1.

	Condition number	Spectral radius	error
			MQ	[8]
1000	2.44071e + 005	0.38856	1.42044e − 004	1.029e − 004 (32 × 32)^a
2000	1.81550e + 006	1.03611	4.17586e − 005	2.715e − 005 (64 × 64)
3000	6.93409e + 006	1.84769	3.16201e − 005	7.130e − 006 (128 × 128)

^aMesh size.