The RBF Collocation Method to Design a Digital Twin for Coffee Percolation
Numerical Analysis
2025-11-17 v1 Numerical Analysis
Abstract
Espresso coffee extraction is a complex physico-chemical process and can be modeled through a system of coupled partial differential equations. We present a numerical solution based on a meshless Collocation Method using Radial Basis Functions and Kansa's approach, which reveals to be accurate and robust in comparison to a reference numerical solution provided by a well-known simulation software.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2511.11202,
title = {The RBF Collocation Method to Design a Digital Twin for Coffee Percolation},
author = {Nadaniela Egidi and Lauro Fioretti and Josephin Giacomini and Pierluigi Maponi and Gianluca Pacini},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.11202},
year = {2025}
}