Research Article

Hermite Radial Basis Collocation Method for Unsaturated Soil Water Movement Equation

Table 2

The comparison of relative error about different algorithm under different number of nodes.

Time stepThe number of nodesParameter
(HRBCM/RBCM)
TimeHRBCM errorFDM errorRBCM error

0.01112.75/1.60.1
0.5
1
2125/300.1
0.5
1
51225/2050.1
0.5
1

FDM: finite difference method, RBCM: radial basis collocation method.