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Radial Basis Function-generated Finite Differences (RBF-FD) is a popular variant of local strong-form meshless methods that do not require a predefined connection between the nodes, making it easier to adapt node-distribution to the problem…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Jure Močnik - Berljavac , Pankaj K Mishra , Jure Slak , Gregor Kosec

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

Semi-lagrangian schemes for discretization of the dynamic programming principle are based on a time discretization projected on a state-space grid. The use of a structured grid makes this approach not feasible for high-dimensional problems…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-09 Alessandro Alla , Hugo Oliveira , Gabriele Santin

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

This paper aims to survey our recent work relating to the radial basis function (RBF) and its applications to numerical PDEs. We introduced the kernel RBF involving general pre-wavelets and scale-orthogonal wavelets RBF. A…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 W Chen

This paper is concerned with the Fourier-Bessel method for the boundary value problems of the Helmholtz equation in a smooth simply connected domain. Based on the denseness of Fourier-Bessel functions, the problem can be approximated by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-03 Deyue Zhang , Fenglin Sun , Yan Ma , Yukun Guo

We propose a Bernoulli phase-fitted (BPF) finite difference method for the Helmholtz equation on the interval $(0, L)$ with impedance boundary conditions. The scheme is derived from a complexified Scharfetter--Gummel discretization of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-21 Ansgar Jüngel , Panchi Li , Zhiwei Sun , Zhiwen Zhang

Scattered data interpolation schemes using kriging and radial basis functions (RBFs) have the advantage of being meshless and dimensional independent, however, for the data sets having insufficient observations, RBFs have the advantage over…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-06-12 Pankaj K Mishra , Sankar K Nath , Mrinal K Sen , Gregory E Fasshauer

The Lane-Emden type equations are employed in the modelling of several phenomena in the areas of mathematical physics and astrophysics . In this paper a new numerical method is applied to investigate some well-known classes of Lane-Emden…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-05-27 Kourosh Parand , Soleiman Hashemi

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

Due to its highly oscillating solution, the Helmholtz equation is numerically challenging to solve. To obtain a reasonable solution, a mesh size that is much smaller than the reciprocal of the wavenumber is typically required (known as the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-02-21 Qiwei Feng , Bin Han , Michelle Michelle

Derivative boundary conditions introduce challenges for mesh-free discretizations of PDEs on surfaces, especially when the domain is represented by randomly sampled point clouds. The recently developed two-step tangent-space RBF-generated…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-31 Peng Chen , Shixiao Willing Jiang , Rongji Li , Qile Yan

This paper introduces a novel meshfree methodology based on Radial Basis Function-Finite Difference (RBF-FD) approximations for the numerical solution of partial differential equations (PDEs) on surfaces of codimension 1 embedded in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-20 Víctor Bayona , Argyrios Petras , Cécile Piret , Steven J. Ruuth

Approximation of scattered data is often a task in many engineering problems. The Radial Basis Function (RBF) approximation is appropriate for large scattered datasets in d-dimensional space. It is non-separable approximation, as it is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-06-13 Zuzana Majdisova , Vaclav Skala

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

We present a new iterative technique based on radial basis function (RBF) interpolation and smoothing for the generation and smoothing of curvilinear meshes from straight-sided or other curvilinear meshes. Our technique approximates the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-04-11 Vidhi Zala , Varun Shankar , Shankar P. Sastry , Robert M. Kirby

The direct method used for calculating smooth radial basis function (RBF) interpolants in the flat limit becomes numerically unstable. The RBF-QR algorithm bypasses this ill-conditioning using a clever change of basis technique. We extend…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-15 Kathryn P. Drake , Grady B. Wright

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

In this paper, we present a spectral method based on Radial Basis Functions (RBFs) for numerically solving the fully nonlinear 1D Serre Green-Naghdi equations. The approximation uses an RBF discretization in space and finite differences in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-07-17 Maurice S. Fabien

This contribution presents a new analysis of properties of the interpolation using Radial Bases Functions (RBF) related to large data sets interpolation. The RBF application is convenient method for scattered d-dimensional interpolation.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-08-01 Vaclav Skala