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We present a comprehensive study of radial basis function (RBF) approximations for elliptic and obstacle-type boundary value problems under a variational formulation. Our focus is on practical accuracy, robustness and efficiency. To address…

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A few novel radial basis function (RBF) discretization schemes for partial differential equations are developed in this study. For boundary-type methods, we derive the indirect and direct symmetric boundary knot methods. Based on the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 W. Chen

We mainly concerned with a decoupled fractional Laplacian wave equation in this paper. A new time-space domain radial basis function (RBF) collocation method is introduced to solve the fractional wave equation, which describes seismic wave…

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We present a novel hyperviscosity formulation for stabilizing RBF-FD discretizations of the advection-diffusion equation. The amount of hyperviscosity is determined quasi-analytically for commonly-used explicit, implicit, and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-08-01 Varun Shankar , Aaron L. Fogelson

This paper proposes a Direct Rational Radial Basis Functions Partition of Unity (D-RRBF-PU) approach to compute derivatives of functions with steep gradients or discontinuities. The novelty of the method concerns how derivatives are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-13 Vahid Mohammadi , Stefano De Marchi

This paper focuses on RBF-based meshless methods for approximating differential operators, one of the most popular being RBF-FD. Recently, a hybrid approach was introduced that combines RBF interpolation and traditional finite difference…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-26 Adrijan Rogan , Andrej Kolar-Požun , Gregor Kosec

We present a generalization of the RBF-FD method that computes RBF-FD weights in finite-sized neighborhoods around the centers of RBF-FD stencils by introducing an overlap parameter $\delta \in [0,1]$ such that $\delta=1$ recovers the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-05-24 Varun Shankar

Partial differential equations (PDEs) on surfaces appear in many applications throughout the natural and applied sciences. The classical closest point method (Ruuth and Merriman, J. Comput. Phys. 227(3):1943-1961, [2008]) is an embedding…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-05-17 Argyrios Petras , Leevan Ling , Steven J. Ruuth

PDE-constrained optimization problems have been barely solved by radial basis functions (RBFs) methods [Pearson, 2013]. It is well known that RBF methods can attain an exponential rate of convergence when $C^{\infty}$ kernels are used,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-03-05 Pedro González Casanova , Jorge Zavaleta

In this paper we propose a new stable and accurate approximation technique which is extremely effective for interpolating large scattered data sets. The Partition of Unity (PU) method is performed considering Radial Basis Functions (RBFs)…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-11-15 R. Cavoretto , S. De Marchi , A. De Rossi , E. Perracchione , G. Santin

Runge--Kutta (RK) methods are widely used techniques for solving a class of initial value problems. In this article, we introduce an adaptive multiquadratic (MQ) radial basis function (RBF)-based method to develop enhanced explicit RK…

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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…

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We study algorithms to estimate geometric properties of raw point cloud data through implicit surface representations. Given that any level-set function with a constant level set corresponding to the surface can be used for such…

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The meshless/meshfree radial basis function (RBF) method is a powerful technique for interpolating scattered data. But, solving large RBF interpolation problems without fast summation methods is computationally expensive. For RBF…

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This work establishes a rigorous variational and gradient-based equivalence between the classical K-Means algorithm and differentiable Radial Basis Function (RBF) neural networks with smooth responsibilities. By reparameterizing the K-Means…

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Most problems in electrodynamics do not have an analytical solution so much effort has been put in the development of numerical schemes, such as the finite-difference method, volume element methods, boundary element methods, and related…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-01-03 L. Ponzellini Marinelli , L. Raviola

While pseudospectral (PS) methods can feature very high accuracy, they tend to be severely limited in terms of geometric flexibility. Application of global radial basis functions overcomes this, however at the expense of problematic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-05-09 Pankaj K Mishra , Sankar K Nath , Gregor Kosec , Mrinal K Sen

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

Accurate and compact representation of signed distance functions (SDFs) of implicit surfaces is crucial for efficient storage, computation, and downstream processing of 3D geometry. In this work, we propose a general learning method for…

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