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Flux reconstruction provides a framework for solving partial differential equations in which functions are discontinuously approximated within elements. Typically, this is done by using polynomials. Here, the use of radial basis functions…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-01-06 Rob Watson , Will Trojak

The meshless/meshfree radial basis function (RBF) method is a powerful technique for interpolating scattered data. But, solving large RBF interpolation problems without fast summation methods is computationally expensive. For RBF…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-06-27 Wei Zhao , Martin Stoll

This paper addresses the problem of approximating a function of bounded variation from its scattered data. Radial basis function(RBF) interpolation methods are known to approximate only functions in their native spaces, and to date, there…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-23 Rajesh Dachiraju

There is a constant c contained in the famous radial basis function shifted surface spline. It's called shape parameter. RBF people only know that this constant is very influential, while its optimal choice is unknown. This paper presents…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2010-11-02 Lin-Tian Luh

We consider the problem of reconstructing 3D objects via meshfree interpolation methods. In this framework, we usually deal with large data sets and thus we develop an efficient local scheme via the well-known Partition of Unity (PU)…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-02-07 Emma Perracchione

In this paper, we introduce a superconvergent approximation method that employs radial basis functions (RBFs) in the numerical solution of conservation laws. The use of RBFs for interpolation and approximation is a well developed area of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-21 Andrew Christlieb , William Sands , Hyoseon Yang

We present a new computational method by extending the Immersed Boundary (IB) method with a spectrally-accurate geometric model based on Radial Basis Function (RBF) interpolation of the Lagrangian structures. Our specific motivation is the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-05-27 Varun Shankar , Grady B. Wright , Robert M. Kirby , Aaron L. Fogelson

In this paper, we discuss the problem of constructing Radial Basis In this paper, we discuss the problem of constructing Radial Basis Function (RBF)-based Partition of Unity (PU) interpolants that are positive if data values are positive.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-01-26 Alessandra De Rossi , Emma Perracchione

We consider how some methods of uniform and nonuniform interpolation by translates of radial basis functions -- specifically the so-called general multiquadrics -- perform in the presence of certain types of noise. These techniques provide…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2018-02-14 Jean-Luc Bouchot , Keaton Hamm

The partition of unity (PU) method, performed with local radial basis function (RBF) approximants, has already been proved to be an effective tool for solving interpolation or collocation problems when large data sets are considered. It…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-11-14 R. Cavoretto , A. De Rossi , G. E. Fasshauer , M. J. McCourt , E. Perracchione

The fundamental purpose of the present work is to constitute an enhanced Euler method with adaptive inverse-quadratic and inverse-multi-quadratic radial basis function (RBF) interpolation technique to solve initial value problems. These…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-02-21 Samala Rathan , Deepit Shah

We propose a physics-based regularization technique for function learning, inspired by statistical mechanics. By drawing an analogy between optimizing the parameters of an interpolator and minimizing the energy of a system, we introduce…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Abhisek Ganguly , Alessandro Gabbana , Vybhav Rao , Sauro Succi , Santosh Ansumali

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

Approximation of scattered geometric 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 method is useful for…

Graphics · Computer Science 2018-04-19 Zuzana Majdisova , Vaclav Skala

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

Meshfree methods based on radial basis function (RBF) approximation are of interest for numerical solution of partial differential equations (PDEs) because they are flexible with respect to the geometry of the computational domain, they can…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-05-17 Ali Safdari-Vaighani , Elisabeth Larsson , Alfa Heryudono

In this paper we develop a discrete Hierarchical Basis (HB) to efficiently solve the Radial Basis Function (RBF) interpolation problem with variable polynomial order. The HB forms an orthogonal set and is adapted to the kernel seed function…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Julio Enrique Castrillon-Candas , Jun Li , Victor Eijkhout

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

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

The direct method used for calculating smooth radial basis function (RBF) interpolants in the flat limit becomes numerically unstable. The RBF-QR algorithm bypasses this ill-conditioning using a clever change of basis technique. We extend…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-15 Kathryn P. Drake , Grady B. Wright