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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

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…

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

Radial basis functions (RBFs) play an important role in function interpolation, in particular in an arbitrary set of interpolation nodes. The accuracy of the interpolation depends on a parameter called the shape parameter. There are many…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-27 Maria Han Veiga , Faezeh Nassajian Mojarrad , Fatemeh Nassajian Mojarrad

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

Nonlinear dimensionality reduction embeddings computed from datasets do not provide a mechanism to compute the inverse map. In this paper, we address the problem of computing a stable inverse map to such a general bi-Lipschitz map. Our…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-11-06 Nathan D. Monnig , Bengt Fornberg , Francois G. Meyer

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

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-05-24 Varun Shankar

We mainly concerned with a decoupled fractional Laplacian wave equation in this paper. A new time-space domain radial basis function (RBF) collocation method is introduced to solve the fractional wave equation, which describes seismic wave…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-06-07 Yiran Xu , Jingye Li , Guofei Pang , Zhikai Wang , Xiaohong Chen , Benfeng Wang

Some response surface functions in complex engineering systems are usually highly nonlinear, unformed, and expensive-to-evaluate. To tackle this challenge, Bayesian optimization, which conducts sequential design via a posterior distribution…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-09-23 Areej AlBahar , Inyoung Kim , Xiaowei Yue

The method of regularized Stokeslets (MRS) is a numerical approach using regularized fundamental solutions to compute the flow due to an object in a viscous fluid where inertial effects can be neglected. The elastic object is represented as…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-10-28 Varun Shankar , Sarah D. Olson

The Reduced Basis Method (RBM) is a rigorous model reduction approach for solving parametrized partial differential equations. It identifies a low-dimensional subspace for approximation of the parametric solution manifold that is embedded…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-09-25 Yanlai Chen , Jiahua Jiang , Akil Narayan

A Radial Basis Function Generated Finite-Differences (RBF-FD) inspired technique for evaluating definite integrals over the volume of the ball in three dimensions is described. Such methods are necessary in many areas of Applied…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-11 Jonah A. Reeger

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

Radial Basis Function (RBF), or Gaussian, kernels are among the most widely used parametric kernels in machine learning, particularly in methods such as Support Vector Machines (SVM) and kernel-based subspace approaches. The kernel…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2026-04-03 Lakhdar Remaki

Very few studies involve how to construct the efficient RBFs by means of problem features. Recently the present author presented general solution RBF (GS-RBF) methodology to create operator-dependent RBFs successfully [1]. On the other…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 W. Chen

Divergence-free (div-free) and curl-free vector fields are pervasive in many areas of science and engineering, from fluid dynamics to electromagnetism. A common problem that arises in applications is that of constructing smooth approximants…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-02-18 Kathryn P. Drake , Edward J. Fuselier , Grady B. Wright

Many local integral methods are based on an integral formulation over small and heavilly overlapping stencils with local RBF interpolations. These functions have become an extremely effective tool for interpolation on scattered node sets,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-11-05 Luciano Ponzellini Marinelli , Nahuel Caruso , Margarita Portapila

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

The purpose of this article is to introduce radial basis function, (RBFs), methods for solving null control problems for the Stokes system with few internal scalar controls and Dirichlet or Navier slip boundary conditions. To the best of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-11-04 Pedro González Casanova , Louis Breton , Cristhian Montoya

Constrained radial basis function (RBF) regression has recently emerged as a powerful meshless tool for reconstructing continuous velocity fields from scattered flow measurements, particularly in image-based velocimetry. However, existing…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-27 Damien Rigutto , Manuel Ratz , Miguel A. Mendez