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In this article we present a modification of classical Radial Basis Function (RBF) interpolation techniques aimed at reducing oscillations near discontinuities in one and two dimensions. Our approach introduces an adaptive mechanism by…

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In this paper, we study the Radial Basis Function (RBF) approximation to differential operators on smooth tensor fields defined on closed Riemannian submanifolds of Euclidean space, identified by randomly sampled point cloud data. {The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-11-23 John Harlim , Shixiao Willing Jiang , John Wilson Peoples

Meshfree radial basis function (RBF) methods are popular tools used to numerically solve partial differential equations (PDEs). They take advantage of being flexible with respect to geometry, easy to implement in higher dimensions, and can…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-03-29 G. Garmanjani , R. Cavoretto , M. Esmaeilbeigi

Radial Basis Function-generated Finite Differences (RBF-FD) is a meshless method that can be used to numerically solve partial differential equations. The solution procedure consists of two steps. First, the differential operator is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-26 Andrej Kolar-Požun , Mitja Jančič , Gregor Kosec

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

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

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

One commonly finds in applications of smooth radial basis functions (RBFs) that scaling the kernels so they are `flat' leads to smaller discretization errors. However, the direct numerical approach for computing with flat RBFs (RBF-Direct)…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-01-04 Grady B. Wright , Bengt Fornberg

We introduce and investigate matrix approximation by decomposition into a sum of radial basis function (RBF) components. An RBF component is a generalization of the outer product between a pair of vectors, where an RBF function replaces the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-25 Elizaveta Rebrova , Yu-Hang Tang

We present a numerical framework for solving neural field equations on surfaces using Radial Basis Function (RBF) interpolation and quadrature. Neural field models describe the evolution of macroscopic brain activity, but modeling studies…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-19 Sage B Shaw , Zachary P Kilpatrick , Daniele Avitabile

Recent developments have made it possible to overcome grid-based limitations of finite difference (FD) methods by adopting the kernel-based meshless framework using radial basis functions (RBFs). Such an approach provides a meshless…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-01-07 Pankaj K Mishra , Gregory E Fasshauer , Mrinal K Sen , Leevan Ling

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

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

In this paper we propose a new stable and accurate approximation technique which is extremely effective for interpolating large scattered data sets. The Partition of Unity (PU) method is performed considering Radial Basis Functions (RBFs)…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-11-15 R. Cavoretto , S. De Marchi , A. De Rossi , E. Perracchione , G. Santin

Accurate interpolation of functions and derivatives is crucial in solving partial differential equations (PDEs). The Radial Basis Function (RBF) method has become an extremely popular and robust approach for interpolation on scattered data.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-23 Amirhossein Fashamiha , David Salac

Recently, collocation based radial basis function (RBF) partition of unity methods (PUM) for solving partial differential equations have been formulated and investigated numerically and theoretically. When combined with stable evaluation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-02-24 Elisabeth Larsson , Victor Shcherbakov , Alfa Heryudono

We numerically solve two-dimensional heat diffusion problems by using a simple variant of the meshfree local radial-basis function (RBF) collocation method. The main idea is to include an additional set of sample nodes outside the problem…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-10-02 Seung Ki Baek , Minjae Kim

In this paper, we present a method based on Radial Basis Function (RBF)-generated Finite Differences (FD) for numerically solving diffusion and reaction-diffusion equations (PDEs) on closed surfaces embedded in $\mathbb{R}^d$. Our method…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-04-04 Varun Shankar , Grady B. Wright , Robert M. Kirby , Aaron L. Fogelson

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 radial basis function (RBF) and quasi Monte Carlo (QMC) methods are two very promising schemes to handle high-dimension problems with complex and moving boundary geometry due to the fact that they are independent of dimensionality and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 W. Chen , J. He