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The DD-CPM software library provides a set of tools for the discretization and solution of problems arising from the closest point method (CPM) for partial differential equations on surfaces. The solvers are built on top of the well-known…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-28 Ian C. T. May , Ronald D. Haynes , Steven J. Ruuth

The paper studies a method for solving elliptic partial differential equations posed on hypersurfaces in $\mathbb{R}^N$, $N=2,3$. The method builds upon the formulation introduced in Bertalmio et al., J. Comput. Phys., 174 (2001),…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-04-08 Alexey Y. Chernyshenko , Maxim A. Olshanskii

In this paper, we present a method based on Radial Basis Function (RBF)-generated Finite Differences (FD) for numerically solving diffusion and reaction-diffusion equations (PDEs) on closed surfaces embedded in $\mathbb{R}^d$. Our method…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-04-04 Varun Shankar , Grady B. Wright , Robert M. Kirby , Aaron L. Fogelson

We introduce suitable coordinate systems for pipes and their variants that allow us to transform partial differential equations (PDEs) on the pipe surfaces or in the solid pipes into computational domains with fixed limits/ranges. Such a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-09 Shuaifei Hu , Yujian Jiao , Desong Kong , Li-Lian Wang

It is one of the most challenging problems in applied mathematics to approximatively solve high-dimensional partial differential equations (PDEs). Recently, several deep learning-based approximation algorithms for attacking this problem…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-02-10 Christian Beck , Martin Hutzenthaler , Arnulf Jentzen , Benno Kuckuck

Partial differential equations (PDEs) on surfaces are fundamental to scientific computing and geometry processing. A popular approach to solving PDEs on surfaces is the finite element method (FEM), where the surface is divided into discrete…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Pranav Jain , Navami Kairanda , Peter Yichen Chen , Oded Stein

We suggest a finite element method for computing minimal surfaces based on computing a discrete Laplace-Beltrami operator operating on the coordinates of the surface. The surface is a discrete representation of the zero level set of a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-03-17 Mirza Cenanovic , Peter Hansbo , Mats G. Larson

In this paper, we propose a novel meshfree Generalized Finite Difference Method (GFDM) approach to discretize PDEs defined on manifolds. Derivative approximations for the same are done directly on the tangent space, in a manner that mimics…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-05-14 Pratik Suchde , Joerg Kuhnert

This article aims to develop a direct numerical approach to solve the space-fractional partial differential equations (PDEs) based on a new differential quadrature (DQ) technique. The fractional derivatives are approximated by the weighted…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-01-24 X. G. Zhu , Y. F. Nie

In this paper we consider a class of unfitted finite element methods for discretization of partial differential equations on surfaces. In this class of methods known as the Trace Finite Element Method (TraceFEM), restrictions or traces of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-07-06 Maxim A. Olshanskii , Arnold Reusken

Point discretization of curved surfaces is required in many applications ranging from object rendering to the solution of surface partial differential equations (PDEs). These applications often impose that surfaces are sampled with local…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Lennart J. Schulze , Ivo F. Sbalzarini

We propose a variational functional and fast algorithms to reconstruct implicit surface from point cloud data with a curvature constraint. The minimizing functional balances the distance function from the point cloud and the mean curvature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-11 Yuchen He , Sung Ha Kang , Hao Liu

Solving partial differential equations (PDEs) on shapes underpins many shape analysis and engineering tasks; yet, prevailing PDE solvers operate on polygonal/triangle meshes while modern 3D assets increasingly live as neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Lilian Welschinger , Yilin Liu , Zican Wang , Niloy Mitra

In the present work, a multi-scale framework for neural network enhanced methods is proposed for approximation of function and solution of partial differential equations (PDEs). By introducing the multi-scale concept, the total solution of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-07 Xiaodan Ren

We propose a new formulation for integrating over smooth curves and surfaces that are described by their closest point mappings. Our method is designed for curves and surfaces that are not defined by any explicit parameterization and is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-10-16 Catherine Kublik , Richard Tsai

Subdivision surfaces are proven to be a powerful tool in geometric modeling and computer graphics, due to the great flexibility they offer in capturing irregular topologies. This paper discusses the robust and efficient implementation of an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-03-13 Bert Jüttler , Angelos Mantzaflaris , Ricardo Perl , Martin Rumpf

We present a meshfree collocation scheme to discretize intrinsic surface differential operators over scalar fields on smooth curved surfaces with given normal vectors and a non-intersecting tubular neighborhood. The method is based on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-17 Abhinav Singh , Alejandra Foggia , Pietro Incardona , Ivo F. Sbalzarini

Elliptic partial differential equations (PDEs) arise in many areas of computational sciences such as computational fluid dynamics, biophysics, engineering, geophysics and more. They are difficult to solve due to their global nature and…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2022-05-09 Damyn M Chipman

Solutions of certain partial differential equations (PDEs) are often represented by the steepest descent curves of corresponding functionals. Minimizing movement scheme was developed in order to study such curves in metric spaces.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-09 Min Sue Park , Cheolhyeong Kim , Hwijae Son , Hyung Ju Hwang

In this paper we present a high-order kernel method for numerically solving diffusion and reaction-diffusion partial differential equations (PDEs) on smooth, closed surfaces embedded in $\mathbb{R}^d$. For two-dimensional surfaces embedded…

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