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We introduce meshfree finite difference methods for approximating nonlinear elliptic operators that depend on second directional derivatives or the eigenvalues of the Hessian. Approximations are defined on unstructured point clouds, which…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-05-03 Brittany D. Froese

We utilize generalized moving least squares (GMLS) to develop meshfree techniques for discretizing hydrodynamic flow problems on manifolds. We use exterior calculus to formulate incompressible hydrodynamic equations in the Stokesian regime…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-02-28 B. J. Gross , N. Trask , P. Kuberry , P. J. Atzberger

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

This paper presents a new finite difference method, called {\varphi}-FD, inspired by the {\phi}-FEM approach for solving elliptic partial differential equations (PDEs) on general geometries. The proposed method uses Cartesian grids,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-28 Michel Duprez , Vanessa Lleras , Alexei Lozinski , Vincent Vigon , Killian Vuillemot

We present a computational scheme that derives a global polynomial level set parametrisation for smooth closed surfaces from a regular surface-point set and prove its uniqueness. This enables us to approximate a broad class of smooth…

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

We propose a multiscale spectral generalized finite element method (MS-GFEM) for discontinuous Galerkin (DG) discretizations. The method builds local approximations on overlapping subdomains as the sum of a local source solution and a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-15 Christian Alber , Lukas Holbach

Meshless methods are often used in numerical simulations of systems of partial differential equations (PDEs), particularly those which involve complex geometries or free surfaces. Here we present a novel compact scheme based on the local…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-13 Henry M. Broadley , Steven J. Lind , Jack R. C. King

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

We propose a generalized multiscale finite element method (GMsFEM) based on clustering algorithm to study the elliptic PDEs with random coefficients in the multi-query setting. Our method consists of offline and online stages. In the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-08-01 Eric T. Chung , Yalchin Efendiev , Wing Tat Leung , Zhiwen Zhang

In this paper, we propose a mesh-free numerical method for solving elliptic PDEs on unknown manifolds, identified with randomly sampled point cloud data. The PDE solver is formulated as a spectral method where the test function space is the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-05-03 Qile Yan , Shixiao Jiang , John Harlim

In this paper, we extend the class of kernel methods, the so-called diffusion maps (DM), and its local kernel variants, to approximate second-order differential operators defined on smooth manifolds with boundaries that naturally arise in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-18 Shixiao W. Jiang , John Harlim

We consider decentralized gradient-free optimization of minimizing Lipschitz continuous functions that satisfy neither smoothness nor convexity assumption. We propose two novel gradient-free algorithms, the Decentralized Gradient-Free…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-29 Zhenwei Lin , Jingfan Xia , Qi Deng , Luo Luo

We adapt the Gradient Discretisation Method (GDM), originally designed for elliptic and parabolic partial differential equations, to the case of a linear scalar hyperbolic equations. This enables the simultaneous design and convergence…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-28 Jérôme Droniou , Robert Eymard , T. Gallouët , R. Herbin

Meshfree solution schemes for the incompressible Navier--Stokes equations are usually based on algorithms commonly used in finite volume methods, such as projection methods, SIMPLE and PISO algorithms. However, drawbacks of these algorithms…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-02-02 Pratik Suchde , Joerg Kuhnert , Sudarshan Tiwari

This paper proposes a novel Generalized Non-Standard Finite Difference (GNSFD) scheme for the numerical solution of a class of fractional partial differential equations (FrPDEs). The formulation of the method is grounded in optimization and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-17 Devank Mishra , Sheerin Kayenat , Amit K. Verma

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

We study superconvergent discretization of the Laplace-Beltrami operator on time-space product manifolds with Neumann temporal boundary values, which arise in the context of dynamic optimal transport on general surfaces. We propose a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-24 Chengrun Jiang , Guozhi Dong , Hailong Guo , Zuoqiang Shi

In this paper, a meshless Generalized Finite Difference Method (GFDM) is proposed to deal with the Stokes-Darcy coupled problem with the Beavers-Joseph-Saffman (BJS) interface conditions. Some high order GFDMs are proposed to show the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-24 Yanan Xing , Haibiao Zheng

The main objective of this paper is to develop a general method of geometric discretization for infinite-dimensional systems and apply this method to the EPDiff equation. The method described below extends one developed by Pavlov et al. for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-03-16 Dmitry Pavlov