Abstract: | Differentiation matrices associated with radial basis function (RBF) collocation methods often have eigenvalues with positive real parts of significant magnitude. This prevents the use of the methods for time‐dependent problems, particulary if explicit time integration schemes are employed. In this work, accuracy and eigenvalue stability of symmetric and asymmetric RBF collocation methods are numerically explored for some model hyperbolic initial boundary value problems in one and two dimensions. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Numer Methods Partial Differential Eq, 2008 |