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Numerical solutions of partial differential equations (PDEs) on manifolds continues to generate a lot of interest among scientists in the natural and applied sciences. On the other hand, recent developments of 3D scanning and computer…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-01-08 E. O. Asante-Asamani , Lei Wang , Zeyun Yu

Spectral geometric methods have brought revolutionary changes to the field of geometry processing. Of particular interest is the study of the Laplacian spectrum as a compact, isometry and permutation-invariant representation of a shape.…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-03-13 Robin Magnet , Maks Ovsjanikov

Spectral methods are widely used in geometry processing of 3D models. They rely on the projection of the mesh geometry on the basis defined by the eigenvectors of the graph Laplacian operator, becoming computationally prohibitive as the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-10-08 Gerasimos Arvanitis , Aris S. Lalos , Konstantinos Moustakas

The aim of this paper is to suggest a new viewpoint to study qualitative properties of solutions of semilinear elliptic PDE's defined outside a compact set. The relevant tools come from spectral theory and from a combination of stochastic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-08-07 G. Pacelli Bessa , Stefano Pigola , Alberto G. Setti

Shape optimization involves the minimization of a cost function defined over a set of shapes, often governed by a partial differential equation (PDE). In the absence of closed-form solutions, one relies on numerical methods to approximate…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-21 Eloi Martinet , Leon Bungert

Meshless methods are commonly used to determine numerical solutions to partial differential equations (PDEs) for problems involving free surfaces and/or complex geometries, approximating spatial derivatives at collocation points via local…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-24 H. Broadley , J. R. C. King , S. J. Lind

When numerically solving partial differential equations (PDEs), the first step is often to discretize the geometry using a mesh and to solve a corresponding discretization of the PDE. Standard finite and spectral element methods require…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-03-30 Aaron Yeiser , Advisor Alex Townsend

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-04-14 Grady B. Wright , Andrew M. Jones , Varun Shankar

In this paper, we propose a mesh-free method to solve interface problems using the deep learning approach. Two interface problems are considered. The first one is an elliptic PDE with a discontinuous and high-contrast coefficient. While the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-12-20 Zhongjian Wang , Zhiwen Zhang

We present Neural Spectral Methods, a technique to solve parametric Partial Differential Equations (PDEs), grounded in classical spectral methods. Our method uses orthogonal bases to learn PDE solutions as mappings between spectral…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Yiheng Du , Nithin Chalapathi , Aditi Krishnapriyan

Stochastic partial differential equations (SPDEs) are ubiquitous in engineering and computational sciences. The stochasticity arises as a consequence of uncertainty in input parameters, constitutive relations, initial/boundary conditions,…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2020-01-29 Sharmila Karumuri , Rohit Tripathy , Ilias Bilionis , Jitesh Panchal

Given only a collection of points sampled from a Riemannian manifold embedded in a Euclidean space, in this paper we propose a new method to solve elliptic partial differential equations (PDEs) supplemented with boundary conditions. Notice…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-11-29 Ryan Vaughn , Tyrus Berry , Harbir Antil

Solving partial differential equations (PDEs) on shapes underpins many shape analysis and engineering tasks; yet, prevailing PDE solvers operate on polygonal/triangle meshes while modern 3D assets increasingly live as neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Lilian Welschinger , Yilin Liu , Zican Wang , Niloy Mitra

The paper studies a method for solving elliptic partial differential equations posed on hypersurfaces in $\mathbb{R}^N$, $N=2,3$. The method allows a surface to be given implicitly as a zero level of a level set function. A surface equation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-01-16 Maxim A. Olshanskii , Danil Safin

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

This work presents a generalized boundary integral method for elliptic equations on surfaces, encompassing both boundary value and interface problems. The method is kernel-free, implying that the explicit analytical expression of the kernel…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-25 Pengsong Yin , Wenjun YIng , Yulin Zhang , Han Zhou

The solution of the elliptic partial differential equation has interface singularity at the points which are either the intersections of interfaces or the intersections of interfaces with the boundary of the domain. The singularities that…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-03-05 N. Kishore Kumar , Pankaj Biswas , B. Seshadri Reddy

A numerical method for solving elliptic PDEs with variable coefficients on two-dimensional domains is presented. The method is based on high-order composite spectral approximations and is designed for problems with smooth solutions. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-07-11 A. Gillman , P. G. Martinsson

Elliptic partial differential equations arise in many fields of science and engineering such as steady state distribution of heat, fluid dynamics, structural/mechanical engineering, aerospace engineering and seismology etc. In three…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2011-10-12 Akhlaq Husain

Let $\Omega$ be an open, simply connected, and bounded region in $\mathbb{R}^{d}$, $d\geq2$, and assume its boundary $\partial\Omega$ is smooth. Consider solving the eigenvalue problem $Lu=\lambda u$ for an elliptic partial differential…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2011-06-20 Kendall Atkinson , Olaf Hansen