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Hybrid methods for simulating rarefied gas flows reduce computational cost by coupling a particle-based model, typically the direct simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) method, to a continuum-based solver, i.e. a computational fluid dynamics (CFD)…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-28 Arshad Kamal , Arun K. Chinnappan , James R. Kermode , Duncan A. Lockerby

When solving partial differential equations on scattered nodes using the Radial Basis Function-generated Finite Difference (RBF-FD) method, one of the parameters that must be chosen is the stencil size. Focusing on Polyharmonic Spline RBFs…

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

We propose and test the first Reduced Radial Basis Function Method (R$^2$BFM) for solving parametric partial differential equations on irregular domains. The two major ingredients are a stable Radial Basis Function (RBF) solver that has an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-10-09 Yanlai Chen , Sigal Gottlieb , Alfa Heryudono , Akil Narayan

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

A new projection method based on radial basis functions (RBFs) is presented for discretizing the incompressible unsteady Stokes equations in irregular geometries. The novelty of the method comes from the application of a new technique for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-09-21 Edward J. Fuselier , Varun Shankar , Grady B. Wright

A variational approach is employed to find stationary solutions to a free boundary problem modeling an idealized electrostatically actuated MEMS device made of an elastic plate coated with a thin dielectric film and suspended above a rigid…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-09-10 Philippe Laurencot , Christoph Walker

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

In this paper we present a refined Radial Basis Function-generated Finite Difference (RBF-FD) solution for a non-Newtonian fluid in a closed differentially heated cavity. The non-Newtonian behaviour is modelled with the Ostwald-de Waele…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-24 Miha Rot , Gregor Kosec

In this paper, we study the benefits of using polyharmonic splines and node layouts with smoothly varying density for developing robust and efficient radial basis function generated finite difference (RBF-FD) methods for pricing of…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2018-08-20 Slobodan Milovanović

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

We present a new method for the solution of PDEs on manifolds $\mathbb{M} \subset \mathbb{R}^d$ of co-dimension one using stable scale-free radial basis function (RBF) interpolation. Our method involves augmenting polyharmonic spline (PHS)…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-08-15 Varun Shankar , Akil Narayan , Robert M. Kirby

We present adaptive finite difference ENO/WENO methods by adopting infinitely smooth radial basis functions (RBFs). This is a direct extension of the non-polynomial finite volume ENO/WENO method proposed by authors in \cite{GuoJung} to the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-05-23 Jingyang Guo , Jae-Hun Jung

The method of fundamental solutions (MFS) is known to be effective for solving 3D Laplace and Stokes Dirichlet boundary value problems in the exterior of a large collection of simple smooth objects. Here we present new scalable MFS…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-22 Anna Broms , Alex H. Barnett , Anna-Karin Tornberg

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

Mesh-free methods have significant potential for simulations in complex geometries, as the time consuming process of mesh-generation is avoided. Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) is the most widely used mesh-free method, but suffers…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-06-24 Jack King , Steven Lind , Abouzied Nasar

This paper presents a new narrow-stencil finite difference method for approximating the viscosity solution of second order fully nonlinear elliptic partial differential equations including Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equations. The proposed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-30 Xiaobing Feng , Thomas Lewis

PDE-constrained optimization problems have been barely solved by radial basis functions (RBFs) methods [Pearson, 2013]. It is well known that RBF methods can attain an exponential rate of convergence when $C^{\infty}$ kernels are used,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-03-05 Pedro González Casanova , Jorge Zavaleta

Modeling microstructural evolution at large strains requires mechanical formulations that remain thermodynamically consistent while capturing significant lattice rotations and transformation-induced stresses. However, most existing…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-11-21 Tushar Jogi

When solving partial differential equations on scattered nodes using the Radial Basis Function generated Finite Difference (RBF-FD) method, one of the parameters that must be chosen is the stencil size. Focusing on Polyharmonic Spline RBFs…

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

Polyharmonic spline (PHS) radial basis functions (RBFs) are used together with polynomials to create local RBF-finite-difference (RBF-FD) weights on different node layouts for spatial discretization of the compressible Navier-Stokes…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-09-10 Gregory A. Barnett , Natasha Flyer , Louis J. Wicker