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In this article we introduce a family of elastic metrics on the space of parametrized surfaces in 3D space using a corresponding family of metrics on the space of vector valued one-forms. We provide a numerical framework for the computation…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-10-09 Zhe Su , Martin Bauer , Stephen C. Preston , Hamid Laga , Eric Klassen

Statistical shape modeling (SSM) is an essential tool for analyzing variations in anatomical morphology. In a typical SSM pipeline, 3D anatomical images, gone through segmentation and rigid registration, are represented using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Hong Xu , Shireen Y. Elhabian

This paper aims to survey our recent work relating to the radial basis function (RBF) and its applications to numerical PDEs. We introduced the kernel RBF involving general pre-wavelets and scale-orthogonal wavelets RBF. A…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 W Chen

Suspensions with fiber-like particles in the low Reynolds number regime are modeled by two different approaches that both use a Lagrangian representation of individual particles. The first method is the well-established formulation based on…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2015-03-25 Dominik Bartuschat , Ellen Fischermeier , Katarina Gustavsson , Ulrich Rüde

In this paper, we propose a meshfree method based on the Gaussian radial basis function (RBF) to solve both classical and fractional PDEs. The proposed method takes advantage of the analytical Laplacian of Gaussian functions so as to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-21 John Burkardt , Yixuan Wu , Yanzhi Zhang

The growing availability of computational resources has significantly increased the interest of the scientific community in performing complex multi-physics and multi-domain simulations. However, the generation of appropriate computational…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-03 Daniele Moretto , Andrea Franceschini , Massimiliano Ferronato

The purpose of this article is to introduce radial basis function, (RBFs), methods for solving null control problems for the Stokes system with few internal scalar controls and Dirichlet or Navier slip boundary conditions. To the best of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-11-04 Pedro González Casanova , Louis Breton , Cristhian Montoya

Scattered data interpolation schemes using kriging and radial basis functions (RBFs) have the advantage of being meshless and dimensional independent, however, for the data sets having insufficient observations, RBFs have the advantage over…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-06-12 Pankaj K Mishra , Sankar K Nath , Mrinal K Sen , Gregory E Fasshauer

Approximation of scattered data is often a task in many engineering problems. The Radial Basis Function (RBF) approximation is appropriate for big scattered datasets in $n-$dimensional space. It is a non-separable approximation, as it is…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2018-06-22 Zuzana Majdisova , Vaclav Skala

This paper introduces a set of numerical methods for Riemannian shape analysis of 3D surfaces within the setting of invariant (elastic) second-order Sobolev metrics. More specifically, we address the computation of geodesics and geodesic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Emmanuel Hartman , Yashil Sukurdeep , Eric Klassen , Nicolas Charon , Martin Bauer

The aim of this paper is to show how rapidly decaying RBF Lagrange functions on the spheres can be used to create effective, stable finite difference methods based on radial basis functions (RBF-FD). For certain classes of PDEs this…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-02-17 Wolfgang Erb , Thomas Hangelbroek , Francis J. Narcowich , Christian Rieger , Joseph D. Ward

This note carries three purposes involving our latest advances on the radial basis function (RBF) approach. First, we will introduce a new scheme employing the boundary knot method (BKM) to nonlinear convection-diffusion problem. It is…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 W. Chen , W. He

One commonly finds in applications of smooth radial basis functions (RBFs) that scaling the kernels so they are `flat' leads to smaller discretization errors. However, the direct numerical approach for computing with flat RBFs (RBF-Direct)…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-01-04 Grady B. Wright , Bengt Fornberg

A fundamental macroscopic description of a magnetized plasma is the Vlasov equation supplemented by the nonlinear inverse-square force Fokker-Planck collision operator [Rosenbluth et al., Phys. Rev., 107, 1957]. The Vlasov part describes…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-09-30 Eero Hirvijoki , Jeff Candy , Emily Belli , Ola Embréus

Surface comparison and matching is a challenging problem in computer vision. While reparametrization-invariant Sobolev metrics provide meaningful elastic distances and point correspondences via the geodesic boundary value problem, solving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Martin Bauer , Nicolas Charon , Philipp Harms , Hsi-Wei Hsieh

The method of regularized Stokeslets, based on the divergence-free exact solution to the equations of highly viscous flow due to a spatially-smoothed concentrated force, is widely employed in biological fluid mechanics. Many problems of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-06-12 James Tyrrell , David J Smith , Rosemary J Dyson

This paper deals with a numerical analysis of plastic deformation under various conditions, utilizing Radial Basis Function (RBF) approximation. The focus is on the elasto-plastic von Mises problem under plane-strain assumption. Elastic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-05-09 Filip Strniša , Mitja Jančič , Gregor Kosec

We present a new method for the solution of PDEs on manifolds $\mathbb{M} \subset \mathbb{R}^d$ of co-dimension one using stable scale-free radial basis function (RBF) interpolation. Our method involves augmenting polyharmonic spline (PHS)…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-08-15 Varun Shankar , Akil Narayan , Robert M. Kirby

We consider the elastic scattering problem by multiple disjoint arcs or \emph{cracks} in two spatial dimensions. A key aspect of our approach lies in the parametric description of each arc's shape, which is controlled by a potentially…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-03-19 Fernando Henríquez , José Pinto

A radial basis function (RBF) method based on matrix-valued kernels is presented and analyzed for computing two types of vector decompositions on bounded domains: one where the normal component of the divergence-free part of the field is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-03-06 Edward J. Fuselier , Grady B. Wright