“…However, the application of RBF transcends the interpolation because they can also be used as the basis of several meshless collocation approaches for solving partial differential equations (PDEs) (see Kansa, 2000, andJumarhon et al, 2000). The most tested approaches so far are global methods that approximate the differential operator over the whole domain (Bustamante et al , 2013), local methods that approximate the PDE locally on a stencil made of some nodes (Bustamante et al, 2014), unsymmetrical methods that directly approximate the solution variable (Kansa, 2000), symmetric methods that achieve a Hermite interpolation with the RBF and the differential operator (Stevens et al, 2009) and finally some methods that approximate the particular solution by RBF (Chen et al, 2012;Bustamante et al, 2014). Although the global formulation becomes unpractical when the number of collocation points is relative large, the local implementation can be used for the improvement of classical numerical methods such as the control volume method CV (Versteeg and Malalasekera, 2007).…”