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Functions on a bounded domain in scientific computing are often approximated using piecewise polynomial approximations on meshes that adapt to the shape of the geometry. We study the problem of function approximation using splines on a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-08-27 Vincent Coppé , Daan Huybrechs

Solutions of partial differential equations (PDEs) on manifolds have provided important applications in different fields in science and engineering. Existing methods are majorly based on discretization of manifolds as implicit functions,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-08-03 Rongjie Lai , Jia Li

Solving inverse and optimization problems over solutions of nonlinear partial differential equations (PDEs) on complex spatial domains is a long-standing challenge. Here we introduce a method that parameterizes the solution using spectral…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-30 James V. Roggeveen , Michael P. Brenner

We derive a new discretisation method for first order PDEs of arbitrary spatial dimension, which is based upon a meshfree spatial approximation. This spatial approximation is similar to the SPH (smoothed particle hydrodynamics) technique…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-01-25 Tobias Ramming , Holger Wendland

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

The Closest Point Method for solving partial differential equations (PDEs) posed on surfaces was recently introduced by Ruuth and Merriman [J. Comput. Phys. 2008] and successfully applied to a variety of surface PDEs. In this paper we study…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-07-30 Thomas März , Colin B. Macdonald

This paper presents a novel multi-scale method for elliptic partial differential equations with arbitrarily rough coefficients. In the spirit of numerical homogenization, the method constructs problem-adapted ansatz spaces with uniform…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-08-05 Philip Freese , Moritz Hauck , Tim Keil , Daniel Peterseim

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

Neural networks are versatile tools for computation, having the ability to approximate a broad range of functions. An important problem in the theory of deep neural networks is expressivity; that is, we want to understand the functions that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-16 Khashayar Filom , Konrad Paul Kording , Roozbeh Farhoodi

For the Poisson equation posed in a domain containing a large number of polygonal perforations, we propose a low-dimensional coarse approximation space based on a coarse polygonal partitioning of the domain. Similarly to other multiscale…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-17 Miranda Boutilier , Konstantin Brenner , Victorita Dolean

In this paper we present a new Eulerian finite element method for the discretization of scalar partial differential equations on evolving surfaces. In this method we use the restriction of standard space-time finite element spaces on a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-12-26 Hauke Sass , Arnold Reusken

Most approximation methods in high dimensions exploit smoothness of the function being approximated. These methods provide poor convergence results for non-smooth functions with kinks. For example, such kinks can arise in the uncertainty…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-02-19 Barbara Fuchs , Jochen Garcke

Spline functions have long been used in numerically solving differential equations. Recently it revives as isogeometric analysis, which uses NURBS for both parametrization and element functions. In this paper, we introduce some multivariate…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-06-27 Guohui Zhao

In this paper, we investigate the application of radial basis functions (RBFs) for the approximation with collocation of the Stokes problem. The approximate solution is constructed in a multi-level fashion, each level using compactly…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-09-29 Andrew Chernih , Quoc Thong Le Gia

We present an isogeometric analysis technique that builds on manifold-based smooth basis functions for geometric modelling and analysis. Manifold-based surface construction techniques are well known in geometric modelling and a number of…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2017-04-05 Musabbir Majeed , Fehmi Cirak

We formulate a well-posedness and approximation theory for a class of generalised saddle point problems with a specific form of constraints. In this way we develop an approach to a class of fourth order elliptic partial differential…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-26 Charles M. Elliott , Philip J. Herbert

In some applications, one is interested in reconstructing a function $f$ from its Fourier series coefficients. The problem is that the Fourier series is slowly convergent if the function is non-periodic, or is non-smooth. In this paper, we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-14 David Levin

We develop an efficient $hp$-finite element method for piecewise-smooth differential equations with periodic boundary conditions, using orthogonal polynomials defined on circular arcs. The operators derived from this basis are banded and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-23 Daniel VandenHeuvel , Sheehan Olver

This work is concerned with the quantification of the epistemic uncertainties induced the discretization of partial differential equations. Following the paradigm of probabilistic numerics, we quantify this uncertainty probabilistically.…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-07-14 Ilias Bilionis

Spectral methods are an important part of scientific computing's arsenal for solving partial differential equations (PDEs). However, their applicability and effectiveness depend crucially on the choice of basis functions used to expand the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-11-10 Brek Meuris , Saad Qadeer , Panos Stinis