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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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-21 John Burkardt , Yixuan Wu , Yanzhi Zhang

This paper presents a novel geometric representation for CAD Boundary Representation (B-Rep) based on volumetric distance functions, dubbed B-Rep Distance Functions (BR-DF). BR-DF encodes the surface mesh geometry of a CAD model as signed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Fuyang Zhang , Pradeep Kumar Jayaraman , Xiang Xu , Yasutaka Furukawa

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

A Radial Basis Function Generated Finite-Differences (RBF-FD) inspired technique for evaluating definite integrals over bounded volumes that have smooth boundaries in three dimensions is described. A key aspect of this approach is that it…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-01-11 Jonah A. Reeger

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

For learning problem of Radial Basis Function Process Neural Network (RBF-PNN), an optimization training method based on GA combined with SA is proposed in this paper. Through building generalized Fr\'echet distance to measure similarity…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2014-05-29 Bing Wang , Yao-hua Meng , Xiao-hong Yu

Strong-form meshless methods received much attention in recent years and are being extensively researched and applied to a wide range of problems in science and engineering. However, the solution of elasto-plastic problems has proven to be…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-02 Gašper Vuga , Boštjan Mavrič , Božidar Šarler

In safety-critical control, managing safety constraints with high relative degrees and uncertain obstacle dynamics pose significant challenges in guaranteeing safety performance. Robust Control Barrier Functions (RCBFs) offer a potential…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-06 Kwang Hak Kim , Mamadou Diagne , Miroslav Krstić

The Square Root Normal Field (SRNF), introduced by Jermyn et al. in [3], provides a way of representing immersed surfaces in $\mathbb R^3$, and equipping the set of these immersions with a "distance function" (to be precise, a pseudometric)…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-12-08 Eric Klassen , Peter W. Michor

The usual Euclidean distance may be generalized to extended objects such as polymers or membranes. Here, this distance is used for the first time as a cost function to align structures. We examined the alignment of extended strands to…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-08-05 Ali R. Mohazab , Steven S. Plotkin

Computing the distance function to some surface or line is a problem that occurs very frequently. There are several ways of computing a relevant approximation of this function, using for example technique originating from the approximation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-12-02 Rémi Abgrall

Algorithms in machine learning and AI do critically depend on at least three key components: (i) the risk function, which is the expectation of the loss function, (ii) the function space, which is often called the hypothesis space, and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-08 Lena Helgerth , Andreas Christmann

Conventionally, piecewise polynomials have been used in the boundary elements method (BEM) to approximate unknown boundary values. Since infinitely smooth radial basis functions (RBFs) are more stable and accurate than the polynomials for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-09-13 Hossein Hosseinzadeh , Zeinab Sedaghatjoo

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

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

We present adaptive finite difference ENO/WENO methods by adopting infinitely smooth radial basis functions (RBFs). This is a direct extension of the non-polynomial finite volume ENO/WENO method proposed by authors in \cite{GuoJung} to the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-05-23 Jingyang Guo , Jae-Hun Jung

The thoracic diaphragm is the muscle that drives the respiratory cycle of a human being. Using a system of partial differential equations (PDEs) that models linear elasticity we compute displacements and stresses in a two-dimensional cross…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-08-31 Igor Tominec , Pierre-Frederic Villard , Elisabeth Larsson , Victor Bayona , Nicola Cacciani

In this note, a new reciprocal resistance-based control barrier function (RRCBF) is developed to enhance the robustness of control barrier functions for disturbed affine nonlinear systems, without requiring explicit knowledge of disturbance…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-28 Xinming Wang , Zongyi Guo , Jianguo Guo , Jun Yang , Yunda Yan

This paper presents a distance function between sets based on an average of distances between their elements. The distance function is a metric if the sets are non-empty finite subsets of a metric space. It can be applied to produce various…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2011-09-13 Osamu Fujita

In the field of radial basis functions mathematicians have been endeavouring to find infinitely differentiable and compactly supported radial functions. This kind of functions are extremely important for some reasons. First, its…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Lin-Tian Luh