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The finite difference time domain method is one of the simplest and most popular methods in computational electromagnetics. This work considers two possible ways of generalising it to a meshless setting by employing local radial basis…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-02-27 Andrej Kolar-Požun , Gregor Kosec

The Reduced Basis Method (RBM) is a model reduction technique used to solve parametric PDEs that relies upon a basis set of solutions to the PDE at specific parameter values. To generate this reduced basis, the set of a small number of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-03-05 Rachel Grotheer , Thilo Strauss , Phil Gralla , Taufiquar Khan

The onerous task of repeatedly resolving certain parametrized partial differential equations (pPDEs) in, e.g. the optimization context, makes it imperative to design vastly more efficient numerical solvers without sacrificing any accuracy.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-06-19 Yanlai Chen , Sigal Gottlieb , Lijie Ji , Yvon Maday , Zhenli Xu

We develop a computational approach that significantly improves the efficiency of Bayesian optimal experimental design (BOED) using local radial basis functions (RBFs). The presented RBF--BOED method uses the intrinsic ability of RBFs to…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-05-20 Tianyi Chu , Jonathan B. Estrada , Spencer H. Bryngelson

In this paper, we investigate the application of radial basis functions (RBFs) for the approximation with collocation of the Stokes problem. The approximate solution is constructed in a multi-level fashion, each level using compactly…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-09-29 Andrew Chernih , Quoc Thong Le Gia

Approximation of scattered data is often a task in many engineering problems. The Radial Basis Function (RBF) approximation is appropriate for large scattered (unordered) datasets in d-dimensional space. This approach is useful for a higher…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2018-06-21 Zuzana Majdisova , Vaclav Skala

The use of model-based numerical simulation of wave propagation in rooms for engineering applications requires that acoustic conditions for multiple parameters are evaluated iteratively and this is computationally expensive. We present a…

Approximation of scattered geometric data is often a task in many engineering problems. The Radial Basis Function (RBF) approximation is appropriate for large scattered (unordered) datasets in d-dimensional space. This method is useful for…

Graphics · Computer Science 2018-04-19 Zuzana Majdisova , Vaclav Skala

A new projection method based on radial basis functions (RBFs) is presented for discretizing the incompressible unsteady Stokes equations in irregular geometries. The novelty of the method comes from the application of a new technique for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-09-21 Edward J. Fuselier , Varun Shankar , Grady B. Wright

Decoupled fractional Laplacian wave equation can describe the seismic wave propagation in attenuating media. Fourier pseudospectral implementations, which solve the equation in spatial frequency domain, are the only existing methods for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-01-08 Yiran Xu , Jingye Li , Guofei Pang , Zhikai Wang , Xiaohong Chen

In this work, we develop a high-order collocation method using radial basis function (RBF) for the incompressible Navier-Stokes equation (NSE) on the rotating sphere. The method is based on solving the projection of the NSE on the space of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-04-27 Tino Franz

In this paper, we propose compactly supported radial basis functions for solving some well- known classes of astrophysics problems categorized as non-linear singular initial ordinary dif- ferential equations on a semi-infinite domain. To…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-05-31 Kourosh Parand , Mohammad Hemami

This paper aims to survey our recent work relating to the radial basis function (RBF) from some new views of points. In the first part, we established the RBF on numerical integration analysis based on an intrinsic relationship between the…

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

This paper focuses on a nonlinear convection-diffusion equation with space and time-fractional Laplacian operators of orders $1<\beta<2$ and $0<\alpha\leq1$, respectively. We develop local discontinuous Galerkin methods, including Legendre…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-11 Majid Rajabzadeh , Moein Khalighi

We study global optimization (GOP) in the framework of non-linear inverse problems with a unique solution. These problems are in general ill-posed. Evaluation of the objective function is often expensive, as it implies the solution of a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2007-05-23 W. Jacquet , B. Truyen , P. de Groen , I. Lemahieu , J. Cornelis

Since the advent of mesh-free methods as a tool for the numerical analysis of systems of Partial Differential Equations (PDEs), many variants of differential operator approximation have been proposed. In this work, we propose a local…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-07 Mitja Jančič , Gregor Kosec

While local basis function (LBF) estimation algorithms, commonly used for identifying/tracking systems with time-varying parameters, demonstrate good performance under the assumption of normally distributed measurement noise, the estimation…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-01 Maciej Niedźwiecki , Artur Gańcza , Wojciech Żuławiński , Agnieszka Wyłomańska

In this paper, we present a meshless hybrid method combining the Generalized Finite Difference (GFD) and Finite Difference based Radial Basis Function (RBF-FD) approaches to solve non-homogeneous partial differential equations (PDEs)…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-02 Priyal Garg , T. V. S. Sekhar

In this paper, we discuss the problem of constructing Radial Basis In this paper, we discuss the problem of constructing Radial Basis Function (RBF)-based Partition of Unity (PU) interpolants that are positive if data values are positive.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-01-26 Alessandra De Rossi , Emma Perracchione

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