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We develop a new meshfree geometric multilevel (MGM) method for solving linear systems that arise from discretizing elliptic PDEs on surfaces represented by point clouds. The method uses a Poisson disk sampling-type technique for coarsening…
Particle-based methods are a practical tool in computational fluid dynamics, and novel types of methods have been proposed. However, widely developed Lagrangian-type formulations suffer from the nonuniform distribution of particles, which…
We propose a new and simple discretization, named the Modified Virtual Grid Difference (MVGD), for numerical approximation of the Laplace-Beltrami (LB) operator on manifolds sampled by point clouds. The key observation is that both the…
The moving mesh PDE (MMPDE) method for variational mesh generation and adaptation is studied theoretically at the discrete level, in particular the nonsingularity of the obtained meshes. Meshing functionals are discretized geometrically and…
In this paper we consider the lowest edge-based mimetic finite difference (MFD) discretization in space for Maxwell's equations in cold plasma on rectangular meshes. The method uses a generalized form of mass lumping that, on one hand,…
We present a new meshless method for scalar diffusion equations which is motivated by their compatible discretizations on primal-dual grids. Unlike the latter though, our approach is truly meshless because it only requires the graph of…
Mesh generation is of great value in various applications involving computer graphics and virtual content, yet designing generative models for meshes is challenging due to their irregular data structure and inconsistent topology of meshes…
Point clouds and polygonal meshes are widely used when modeling real-world scenarios. Here, point clouds arise, for instance, from acquisition processes applied in various surroundings, such as reverse engineering, rapid prototyping, or…
Convection-diffusion equations arise in a variety of applications such as particle transport, electromagnetics, and magnetohydrodynamics. Simulation of the convection-dominated regime for these problems, even with high-fidelity techniques,…
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…
Meshless methods inherently do not require mesh topologies and are practically used for solving continuum equations. However, these methods generally tend to have a higher computational load than conventional mesh-based methods because…
We introduce a robust first order accurate meshfree method to numerically solve time-dependent nonlinear conservation laws. The main contribution of this work is the meshfree construction of first order consistent summation by parts…
Symmetry-preserving (mimetic) discretization aims to preserve certain properties of a continuous differential operator in its discrete counterpart. For these discretizations, stability and (discrete) conservation of mass, momentum and…
In this paper, a novel meshless method that can handle porous flow problems with singular source terms is developed by virtually constructing the node control domains. By defining the connectable node cloud, this novel meshless method uses…
We study the convergence of the new family of mimetic finite difference schemes for linear diffusion problems recently proposed in [38]. In contrast to the conventional approach, the diffusion coefficient enters both the primary mimetic…
A simple but successful strategy for building a discrete diffusion operator in finite volume schemes of industrial use is to correct the standard two-point flux approximation with a term accounting for the local mesh non-orthogonality.…
We present a new mimetic finite difference method for diffusion problems that converges on grids with \textit{curved} (i.e., non-planar) faces. Crucially, it gives a symmetric discrete problem that uses only one discrete unknown per curved…
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…
This work extends our previous study from S. Shrestha et al. (2024) by introducing a new abstract framework for Variational Multiscale (VMS) methods at the discrete level. We introduce the concept of what we define as the optimal projector…
We present a novel structure-preserving semi-implicit finite volume method on vertex-based staggered meshes for the compatible discretization of first order systems of time-dependent partial differential equations (PDEs). The method…