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We propose a patchwise local Fourier extension method for approximating smooth functions on general two dimensional domains with curved boundaries. The domain is embedded into a Cartesian background grid and decomposed into rectangular…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Zhenyu Zhao , Yanfei Wang

In geophysical fluid dynamics, the screened Poisson equation appears in the shallow-water, quasi geostrophic equations. Recently, many attempts have been made to solve those equations on the sphere using different numerical methods. These…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-11-26 Ramy Tanios , Samah El Mohtar , Omar Knio , Issam Lakkis

We describe the quantum sphere of Podle\'{s} for $c=0$ by means of a stereographic projection which is analogous to that which exhibits the classical sphere as a complex manifold. We show that the algebra of functions and the differential…

q-alg · Mathematics 2008-02-03 Chong-Sun Chu , Pei-Ming Ho , Bruno Zumino

The solution of the Poisson equation is a ubiquitous problem in computational astrophysics. Most notably, the treatment of self-gravitating flows involves the Poisson equation for the gravitational field. In hydrodynamics codes using…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-16 Bernhard Müller , Conrad Chan

We use the Hardy spaces for Fourier integral operators to obtain bounds for spherical maximal functions in $L^{p}(\mathbb{R}^{n})$, $n\geq2$, where the radii of the spheres are restricted to a compact interval in $(0,\infty)$. These bounds…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2026-02-24 Abhishek Ghosh , Naijia Liu , Jan Rozendaal , Liang Song

We propose implicit integrators for solving stiff differential equations on unit spheres. Our approach extends the standard backward Euler and Crank-Nicolson methods in Cartesian space by incorporating the geometric constraint inherent to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-25 Shingyu Leung

A new scheme is proposed to construct an n-times differentiable function extension of an n-times differentiable function defined on a smooth domain D in d-dimensions. The extension scheme relies on an explicit formula consisting of a linear…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-12-05 Charles L. Epstein , Fredrik Fryklund , Shidong Jiang

We present an algorithm of finding numerical solutions of pulsar equation. The problem of finding the solutions was reduced to finding expansion coefficients of the source term of the equation in a base of orthogo- nal functions defined on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Lukasz Bratek , Marcin Kolonko

Numerical integration on spheres, including the computation of the areas of spherical triangles, is a core computation in geomathematics. The commonly used techniques sometimes suffer from instabilities and significant loss of accuracy. We…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-06-08 Yipeng Li , Xiangmin Jiao

Spherical and polar geometries arise in many important areas of computational science, including weather and climate forecasting, optics, and astrophysics. In these applications, tensor-product grids are often used to represent unknowns.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-10 Michael Chiwere , Grady B. Wright

In this short note, we present an easy to implement and fast algorithm for the computation of the steady solitary gravity wave solution of the free surface Euler equations in irrotational motion. First, the problem is reformulated in a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-02-20 Didier Clamond , Denys Dutykh

This paper considers filtered polynomial approximations on the unit sphere $\mathbb{S}^d\subset \mathbb{R}^{d+1}$, obtained by truncating smoothly the Fourier series of an integrable function $f$ with the help of a "filter" $h$, which is a…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2015-09-15 Heping Wang , Ian H. Sloan

In this paper, we study the computation of optimal discrete Morse functions on stratifolds. In particular, we present an algorithm that efficiently computes such functions for a broad class of them. Moreover, we characterize the conditions…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Jesus Liceaga-Martinez , Jesús Rodríguez-Viorato , José Carlos Gómez-Larrañaga

We introduce an efficient algorithm, called partition of unity extension or PUX, to construct an extension of desired regularity of a function given on a complex multiply connected domain in $2D$. Function extension plays a fundamental role…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-09-26 Fredrik Fryklund , Erik Lehto , Anna-Karin Tornberg

This paper presents a "two-dimensional Fourier Continuation" method (2D-FC) for construction of bi-periodic extensions of smooth non-periodic functions defined over general two-dimensional smooth domains. The approach can be directly…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-10-19 Oscar P. Bruno , Jagabandhu Paul

In this paper we provide a reconstruction algorithm for piecewise-smooth functions with a-priori known smoothness and number of discontinuities, from their Fourier coefficients, posessing the maximal possible asymptotic rate of convergence…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-03-18 Dmitry Batenkov

We describe computational tools that have been developed to simulate dynamical mass transfer in semi-detached, polytropic binaries that are initially executing synchronous rotation upon circular orbits. Initial equilibrium models are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Patrick M Motl , Joel E Tohline , Juhan Frank

Real-space refinement of atomic models in macromolecular crystallography or in cryo electron microscopy fits a model to a map obtained experimentally. This requires generating model maps of a limited resolution which moreover may vary from…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Ludmila Urzhumtseva , Vladimir Y. Lunin , Alexandre Urzhumtsev

In this work, we study probability functions associated with Gaussian mixture models. Our primary focus is on extending the use of spherical radial decomposition for multivariate Gaussian random vectors to the context of Gaussian mixture…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-06 Gonzalo Contador , Pedro Pérez-Aros , Emilio Vilches

Blending schemes based on circles provide smooth `fair' interpolations between series of points. Here we demonstrate a simple, robust set of algorithms for performing circle blends for a range of cases. An arbitrary level of G-continuity…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Chris Doran