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The aim of this paper is to show how rapidly decaying RBF Lagrange functions on the spheres can be used to create effective, stable finite difference methods based on radial basis functions (RBF-FD). For certain classes of PDEs this…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-02-17 Wolfgang Erb , Thomas Hangelbroek , Francis J. Narcowich , Christian Rieger , Joseph D. Ward

We consider linear, hyperbolic systems of balance laws in several space dimensions. They possess non-trivial steady states, which result from the equilibrium between derivatives of the unknowns in different directions, and the sources.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-06 Wasilij Barsukow , Mario Ricchiuto , Davide Torlo

We present an approach to solid-state electronic-structure calculations based on the finite-element method. In this method, the basis functions are strictly local, piecewise polynomials. Because the basis is composed of polynomials, the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 J. E. Pask , B. M. Klein , C. Y. Fong , P. A. Sterne

This paper aims to survey our recent work relating to the radial basis function (RBF) from some new views of points. In the first part, we established the RBF on numerical integration analysis based on an intrinsic relationship between the…

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

Many important initial value problems have the property that energy is non-increasing in time. Energy stable methods, also referred to as strongly stable methods, guarantee the same property discretely. We investigate requirements for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-11-26 Hendrik Ranocha , David I. Ketcheson

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

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

One of the most popular methods employed in computational electromagnetics is the Finite Difference Time Domain (FDTD) method. We generalise it to a meshless setting using the Radial Basis Function generated Finite Difference (RBF-FD)…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-02-26 Andrej Kolar-Požun , Gregor Kosec

Boundary value problems on the unit sphere arise naturally in geophysics and oceanography when scientists model a physical quantity on large scales. Robust numerical methods play an important role in solving these problems. In this article,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-10-21 Quoc Thong Le Gia

Because of the high approximation power and simplicity of computation of smooth radial basis functions (RBFs), in recent decades they have received much attention for function approximation. These RBFs contain a shape parameter that…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-23 Fatemeh Pooladi , Hossein Hosseinzadeh

The subject of this paper is the design of efficient and stable spectral methods for time-dependent partial differential equations in unit balls. We commence by sketching the desired features of a spectral method, which is defined by a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-12-21 Jing Gao , Arieh Iserles

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

We consider a stabilized finite element method based on a spacetime formulation, where the equations are solved on a global (unstructured) spacetime mesh. A unique continuation problem for the wave equation is considered, where data is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-05-10 Erik Burman , Ali Feizmohammadi , Arnaud Munch , Lauri Oksanen

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

Radial basis functions (RBFs) play an important role in function interpolation, in particular in an arbitrary set of interpolation nodes. The accuracy of the interpolation depends on a parameter called the shape parameter. There are many…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-27 Maria Han Veiga , Faezeh Nassajian Mojarrad , Fatemeh Nassajian Mojarrad

Approximation of scattered 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 approach is useful for a higher…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2018-06-21 Zuzana Majdisova , Vaclav Skala

The popularity of local meshless methods in the field of numerical simulations has increased greatly in recent years. This is mainly due to the fact that they can operate on scattered nodes and that they allow a direct control over the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-06-29 Mitja Jančič , Gregor Kosec

We investigate the spectrum of differentiation matrices for certain operators on the sphere that are generated from collocation at a set of scattered points $X$ with positive definite and conditionally positive definite kernels. We focus on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-12-27 Thomas Hangelbroek , Christian Rieger , Grady Wright

High-order finite difference methods are efficient, easy to program, scales well in multiple dimensions and can be modified locally for various reasons (such as shock treatment for example). The main drawback have been the complicated and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-17 Magnus Svärd , Jan Nordström

A general and easy-to-code numerical method based on radial basis functions (RBFs) collocation is proposed for the solution of delay differential equations (DDEs). It relies on the interpolation properties of infinitely smooth RBFs, which…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-01-03 Francisco Bernal , Gail Gutiérrez