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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…
This paper introduces a novel meshfree methodology based on Radial Basis Function-Finite Difference (RBF-FD) approximations for the numerical solution of partial differential equations (PDEs) on surfaces of codimension 1 embedded in…
In this paper, we present a method based on Radial Basis Function (RBF)-generated Finite Differences (FD) for numerically solving diffusion and reaction-diffusion equations (PDEs) on closed surfaces embedded in $\mathbb{R}^d$. Our method…
Partial differential equations (PDEs) on surfaces appear in many applications throughout the natural and applied sciences. The classical closest point method (Ruuth and Merriman, J. Comput. Phys. 227(3):1943-1961, [2008]) is an embedding…
In this paper, we present a meshless hybrid method combining the Generalized Finite Difference (GFD) and Finite Difference based Radial Basis Function (RBF-FD) approaches to solve non-homogeneous partial differential equations (PDEs)…
Recent developments have made it possible to overcome grid-based limitations of finite difference (FD) methods by adopting the kernel-based meshless framework using radial basis functions (RBFs). Such an approach provides a meshless…
Radial Basis Function-generated Finite Differences (RBF-FD) is a meshless method that can be used to numerically solve partial differential equations. The solution procedure consists of two steps. First, the differential operator is…
We present a generalization of the RBF-FD method that computes RBF-FD weights in finite-sized neighborhoods around the centers of RBF-FD stencils by introducing an overlap parameter $\delta \in [0,1]$ such that $\delta=1$ recovers the…
Approximating differential operators defined on two-dimensional surfaces is an important problem that arises in many areas of science and engineering. Over the past ten years, localized meshfree methods based on generalized moving least…
Meshfree radial basis function (RBF) methods are popular tools used to numerically solve partial differential equations (PDEs). They take advantage of being flexible with respect to geometry, easy to implement in higher dimensions, and can…
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…
Radial basis function generated finite difference (RBF-FD) methods for PDEs require a set of interpolation points which conform to the computational domain $\Omega$. One of the requirements leading to approximation robustness is to place…
In this paper, we propose a novel meshfree Generalized Finite Difference Method (GFDM) approach to discretize PDEs defined on manifolds. Derivative approximations for the same are done directly on the tangent space, in a manner that mimics…
Machine learning has been successfully applied to various fields of scientific computing in recent years. In this work, we propose a sparse radial basis function neural network method to solve elliptic partial differential equations (PDEs)…
In this paper, we propose a meshfree method based on the Gaussian radial basis function (RBF) to solve both classical and fractional PDEs. The proposed method takes advantage of the analytical Laplacian of Gaussian functions so as to…
In this paper, we extend the Generalized Finite Difference Method (GFDM) on unknown compact submanifolds of the Euclidean domain, identified by randomly sampled data that (almost surely) lie on the interior of the manifolds. Theoretically,…
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…
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)…
In this paper, we propose a mesh-free numerical method for solving elliptic PDEs on unknown manifolds, identified with randomly sampled point cloud data. The PDE solver is formulated as a spectral method where the test function space is the…
Accurate interpolation of functions and derivatives is crucial in solving partial differential equations (PDEs). The Radial Basis Function (RBF) method has become an extremely popular and robust approach for interpolation on scattered data.…