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We present a comprehensive study of radial basis function (RBF) approximations for elliptic and obstacle-type boundary value problems under a variational formulation. Our focus is on practical accuracy, robustness and efficiency. To address…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-23 Tan Phuong Dong Le , Giang Tran , Hans De Sterck

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

Meshless methods are often used in numerical simulations of systems of partial differential equations (PDEs), particularly those which involve complex geometries or free surfaces. Here we present a novel compact scheme based on the local…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-13 Henry M. Broadley , Steven J. Lind , Jack R. C. King

Radial basis function generated finite-difference (RBF-FD) methods have recently gained popularity due to their flexibility with irregular node distributions. However, the convergence theories in the literature, when applied to nonuniform…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-09 Siqing LI , Leevan Ling , Xin Liu , Pankaj K Mishra , Mrinal K Sen , Jing Zhang

A semi-implicit fractional-step method that uses a staggered node layout and radial basis function-finite differences (RBF-FD) to solve the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations is developed. Polyharmonic splines (PHS) with polynomial…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-12-15 Tianyi Chu , Oliver T. Schmidt

We present fast, spatially dispersionless and unconditionally stable high-order solvers for Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) with variable coefficients in general smooth domains. Our solvers, which are based on (i) A certain "Fourier…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-09-05 O. P. Bruno , A. Prieto

Most problems in electrodynamics do not have an analytical solution so much effort has been put in the development of numerical schemes, such as the finite-difference method, volume element methods, boundary element methods, and related…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-01-03 L. Ponzellini Marinelli , L. Raviola

We present a numerical framework for solving neural field equations on surfaces using Radial Basis Function (RBF) interpolation and quadrature. Neural field models describe the evolution of macroscopic brain activity, but modeling studies…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-19 Sage B Shaw , Zachary P Kilpatrick , Daniele Avitabile

Partial differential equations (PDEs) on surfaces arise in a wide range of applications. The closest point method (Ruuth and Merriman, J. Comput. Phys. 227(3):1943-1961, [2008]) is a recent embedding method that has been used to solve a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-11-04 A. Petras , S. J. Ruuth

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

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

In this paper, we present how high-order accurate solutions to elliptic partial differential equations can be achieved in arbitrary spatial domains using radial basis function-generated finite differences (RBF-FD) on unfitted node sets…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-23 Morten E. Nielsen , Bengt Fornberg

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

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

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, we define new unfitted finite element methods for numerically approximating the solution of surface partial differential equations using bulk finite elements. The key idea is that the $n$-dimensional hypersurface, $\Gamma…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-03-21 Klaus Deckelnick , Charles M. Elliott , Thomas Ranner

We propose algorithms for solving convective-diffusion partial differential equations (PDEs), which model surfactant concentration and heat transport on evolving surfaces, based on intrinsic kernel-based meshless collocation methods. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-12-14 Meng Chen , Leevan Ling

We present three new semi-Lagrangian methods based on radial basis function (RBF) interpolation for numerically simulating transport on a sphere. The methods are mesh-free and are formulated entirely in Cartesian coordinates, thus avoiding…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-05-09 Varun Shankar , Grady Wright

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

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