English
Related papers

Related papers: An RBF-FD closest point method for solving PDEs on…

200 papers

We describe and test numerically an adaptive meshless generalized finite difference method based on radial basis functions that competes well with the finite element method on standard benchmark problems with reentrant corners of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-26 Dang Thi Oanh , Oleg Davydov , Hoang Xuan Phu

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

Localized collocation methods based on radial basis functions (RBFs) for elliptic problems appear to be non-robust in the presence of Neumann boundary conditions. In this paper we overcome this issue by formulating the RBF-generated finite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-16 Igor Tominec , Elisabeth Larsson , Alfa Heryudono

We analyze and test using Fourier extensions that minimize a Hilbert space norm for the purpose of solving partial differential equations (PDEs) on surfaces. In particular, we prove that the approach is arbitrarily high-order and also show…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-30 Daniel R. Venn , Steven J. Ruuth

We describe an efficient method for the approximation of functions using radial basis functions (RBFs), and extend this to a solver for boundary value problems on irregular domains. The method is based on RBFs with centers on a regular grid…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-03-05 Yiqing Zhou , Daan Huybrechs

Propagation characteristics of a wave are defined by the dispersion relationship, from which the governing partial differential equation (PDE) can be recovered. PDEs are commonly solved numerically using the finite-difference (FD) method,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-07-29 Edward Caunt

In this paper, a new localized radial basis function (RBF) method based on partition of unity (PU) is proposed for solving boundary and initial-boundary value problems. The new method is benefited from a direct discretization approach and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-10-28 Davoud Mirzaei

This article aims to develop a direct numerical approach to solve the space-fractional partial differential equations (PDEs) based on a new differential quadrature (DQ) technique. The fractional derivatives are approximated by the weighted…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-01-24 X. G. Zhu , Y. F. Nie

We generalize the closest point method (CPM) to solve surface partial differential equations with general boundary conditions. The proposed extrapolation method provides a unified framework for treating a broad class of inhomogeneous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Tony Wong , Colin B. Macdonald , Byungjoon Lee

In this paper, we define new unfitted finite element methods for numerically approximating the solution of surface partial differential equations using bulk finite elements. The key idea is that the $n$-dimensional hypersurface, $\Gamma…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-03-21 Klaus Deckelnick , Charles M. Elliott , Thomas Ranner

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

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

Machine learning has been successfully applied to various fields of scientific computing in recent years. In this work, we propose a sparse radial basis function neural network method to solve elliptic partial differential equations (PDEs)…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-09-07 Zhiwen Wang , Minxin Chen , Jingrun Chen

In this paper, we propose a novel meshfree Generalized Finite Difference Method (GFDM) approach to discretize PDEs defined on manifolds. Derivative approximations for the same are done directly on the tangent space, in a manner that mimics…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-05-14 Pratik Suchde , Joerg Kuhnert

We present a reduced basis (RB) method for parametrized linear elliptic partial differential equations (PDEs) in a least-squares finite element framework. A rigorous and reliable error estimate is developed, and is shown to bound the error…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-09-24 Jehanzeb Hameed Chaudhry , Luke N. Olson , Peter Sentz

The Closest Point method, initially developed by Ruuth and Merriman, allows for the numerical solution of surface partial differential equations without the need for a parameterization of the surface itself. Surface quantities are embedded…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2017-06-28 Christopher J. Vogl

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

Partial differential equations (PDEs) on surfaces are fundamental to scientific computing and geometry processing. A popular approach to solving PDEs on surfaces is the finite element method (FEM), where the surface is divided into discrete…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Pranav Jain , Navami Kairanda , Peter Yichen Chen , Oded Stein

In this paper we consider a class of unfitted finite element methods for discretization of partial differential equations on surfaces. In this class of methods known as the Trace Finite Element Method (TraceFEM), restrictions or traces of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-07-06 Maxim A. Olshanskii , Arnold Reusken

Recently, collocation based radial basis function (RBF) partition of unity methods (PUM) for solving partial differential equations have been formulated and investigated numerically and theoretically. When combined with stable evaluation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-02-24 Elisabeth Larsson , Victor Shcherbakov , Alfa Heryudono