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This note carries three purposes involving our latest advances on the radial basis function (RBF) approach. First, we will introduce a new scheme employing the boundary knot method (BKM) to nonlinear convection-diffusion problem. It is…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 W. Chen , W. He

Conventionally, piecewise polynomials have been used in the boundary elements method (BEM) to approximate unknown boundary values. Since infinitely smooth radial basis functions (RBFs) are more stable and accurate than the polynomials for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-09-13 Hossein Hosseinzadeh , Zeinab Sedaghatjoo

This paper introduces the Non-linear Partition of Unity Method, a novel technique integrating Radial Basis Function interpolation and Weighted Essentially Non-Oscillatory algorithms. It addresses challenges in high-accuracy approximations,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-17 José Manuel Ramón , Juan Ruiz-Alvarez , Dionisio F. Yáñez

In this paper we propose a new efficient interpolation tool, extremely suitable for large scattered data sets. The partition of unity method is used and performed by blending Radial Basis Functions (RBFs) as local approximants and using…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-04-18 R. Cavoretto , A. De Rossi , E. Perracchione

Surface reconstruction from a set of scattered points, or a point cloud, has many applications ranging from computer graphics to remote sensing. We present a new method for this task that produces an implicit surface (zero-level set)…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-07-22 Kathryn P. Drake , Edward J. Fuselier , Grady B. Wright

The paper introduces a new meshfree pseudospectral method based on Gaussian radial basis functions (RBFs) collocation to solve fractional Poisson equations. Hypergeometric functions are used to represent the fractional Laplacian of Gaussian…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-01 Xiaochuan Tian , Yixuan Wu , Yanzhi Zhang

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

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, we deal with the challenging computational issue of interpolating large data sets, with eventually non-homogeneous densities. To such scope, the Radial Basis Function Partition of Unity (RBF-PU) method has been proved to be a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-11-23 Roberto Cavoretto , Alessandra De Rossi , Emma Perracchione

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

Approximation of scattered geometric data is often a task in many engineering problems. The Radial Basis Function (RBF) approximation is appropriate for large scattered (unordered) datasets in d-dimensional space. This method is useful for…

Graphics · Computer Science 2018-04-19 Zuzana Majdisova , Vaclav Skala

We mainly concerned with a decoupled fractional Laplacian wave equation in this paper. A new time-space domain radial basis function (RBF) collocation method is introduced to solve the fractional wave equation, which describes seismic wave…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-06-07 Yiran Xu , Jingye Li , Guofei Pang , Zhikai Wang , Xiaohong Chen , Benfeng Wang

We present a comprehensive study of radial basis function (RBF) approximations for elliptic and obstacle-type boundary value problems under a variational formulation. Our focus is on practical accuracy, robustness and efficiency. To address…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-23 Tan Phuong Dong Le , Giang Tran , Hans De Sterck

A Radial Basis Function Generated Finite-Differences (RBF-FD) inspired technique for evaluating definite integrals over bounded volumes that have smooth boundaries in three dimensions is described. A key aspect of this approach is that it…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-01-11 Jonah A. Reeger

Solving partial differential equations (PDEs) on manifolds defined by randomly sampled point clouds is a challenging problem in scientific computing and has broad applications in various fields. In this paper, we develop a two-step…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-17 Rongji Li , Haichuan Di , Shixiao Willing Jiang

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

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

The growing availability of computational resources has significantly increased the interest of the scientific community in performing complex multi-physics and multi-domain simulations. However, the generation of appropriate computational…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-03 Daniele Moretto , Andrea Franceschini , Massimiliano Ferronato

In this paper, we propose a meshfree method based on the Gaussian radial basis function (RBF) to solve both classical and fractional PDEs. The proposed method takes advantage of the analytical Laplacian of Gaussian functions so as to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-21 John Burkardt , Yixuan Wu , Yanzhi Zhang

In this paper the Partition of Unity Method (PUM) is efficiently performed using Radial Basis Functions (RBFs) as local approximants. In particular, we present a new space-partitioning data structure extremely useful in applications because…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-12-15 Alessandra De Rossi , Roberto Cavoretto , Emma Perracchione