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We introduce a method-of-lines formulation of the closest point method, a numerical technique for solving partial differential equations (PDEs) defined on surfaces. This is an embedding method, which uses an implicit representation of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-07-23 Ingrid von Glehn , Thomas März , Colin B. Macdonald

Partial differential equations (PDEs) on surfaces arise in a wide range of applications. The closest point method (Ruuth and Merriman, J. Comput. Phys. 227(3):1943-1961, [2008]) is a recent embedding method that has been used to solve a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-11-04 A. Petras , S. J. Ruuth

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

Solutions of partial differential equations (PDEs) on manifolds have provided important applications in different fields in science and engineering. Existing methods are majorly based on discretization of manifolds as implicit functions,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-08-03 Rongjie Lai , Jia Li

Elliptic partial differential equations are important both from application and analysis points of views. In this paper we apply the Closest Point Method to solving elliptic equations on general curved surfaces. Based on the closest point…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-10-28 Yujia Chen , Colin B. Macdonald

The closest point method (Ruuth and Merriman, J. Comput. Phys. 227(3):1943-1961, [2008]) is an embedding method developed to solve a variety of partial differential equations (PDEs) on smooth surfaces, using a closest point representation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-20 A. Petras , L. Ling , C. Piret , S. J. Ruuth

There are many numerical methods for solving partial different equations (PDEs) on manifolds such as classical implicit, finite difference, finite element, and isogeometric analysis methods which aim at improving the interoperability…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-11-17 Wenrui Hao , Jonathan D. Hauenstein , Margaret H. Regan , Tingting Tang

The Closest Point Method for solving partial differential equations (PDEs) posed on surfaces was recently introduced by Ruuth and Merriman [J. Comput. Phys. 2008] and successfully applied to a variety of surface PDEs. In this paper we study…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-07-30 Thomas März , Colin B. Macdonald

This paper proposes a mesh-free computational framework and machine learning theory for solving elliptic PDEs on unknown manifolds, identified with point clouds, based on diffusion maps (DM) and deep learning. The PDE solver is formulated…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-02-28 Senwei Liang , Shixiao W. Jiang , John Harlim , Haizhao Yang

The discretization of surface intrinsic PDEs has challenges that one might not face in the flat space. The closest point method (CPM) is an embedding method that represents surfaces using a function that maps points in the flat space to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-10 Alireza Yazdani , Ronald D. Haynes , Steven J. Ruuth

The discretization of surface intrinsic elliptic partial differential equations (PDEs) poses interesting challenges not seen in flat space. The discretization of these PDEs typically proceeds by either parametrizing the surface,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-09-07 Ian May , Ronald Haynes , Steven Ruuth

Partial differential equations (PDE) on manifolds arise in many areas, including mathematics and many applied fields. Among all kinds of PDEs, the Poisson-type equations including the standard Poisson equation and the related eigenproblem…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-08-05 Zhen Li , Zuoqiang Shi , Jian Sun

Neural networks have shown significant potential in solving partial differential equations (PDEs). While deep networks are capable of approximating complex functions, direct one-shot training often faces limitations in both accuracy and…

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This paper explores the embedding of lattice structures $L \subseteq \mathbb{R}^n$ into smooth manifolds $M \subseteq \mathbb{R}^n$ through a rigorous mathematical framework. Building upon the foundational results established in "Embedding…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-02 Francesco D'Agostino

Partial Differential Equations (PDE) are fundamental to model different phenomena in science and engineering mathematically. Solving them is a crucial step towards a precise knowledge of the behaviour of natural and engineered systems. In…

In this paper, we consider approximating the parameter-to-solution maps of parametric partial differential equations (PPDEs) using deep neural networks (DNNs). We propose an efficient approach combining reduced collocation methods (RCMs)…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-18 Guanhang Lei , Zhen Lei , Lei Shi , Chenyu Zeng

Given only a collection of points sampled from a Riemannian manifold embedded in a Euclidean space, in this paper we propose a new method to solve elliptic partial differential equations (PDEs) supplemented with boundary conditions. Notice…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-11-29 Ryan Vaughn , Tyrus Berry , Harbir Antil

Marginal MAP problems are notoriously difficult tasks for graphical models. We derive a general variational framework for solving marginal MAP problems, in which we apply analogues of the Bethe, tree-reweighted, and mean field…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-02-28 Qiang Liu , Alexander T. Ihler

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
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