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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…
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Trace finite element methods have become a popular option for solving surface partial differential equations, especially in problems where surface and bulk effects are coupled. In such methods a surface mesh is formed by approximately…
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We introduce a novel meshless method called the Constrained Least-Squares Ghost Sample Points (CLS-GSP) method for solving partial differential equations on irregular domains or manifolds represented by randomly generated sample points. Our…
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Meshfree finite difference methods for the Poisson equation approximate the Laplace operator on a point cloud. Desirable are positive stencils, i.e. all neighbor entries are of the same sign. Classical least squares approaches yield large…
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