A closed-form formula for the RBF-based approximation of the Laplace-Beltrami operator
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instance of: scholarly article
title: A closed-form formula for the RBF-based approximation of the Laplace-Beltrami operator
zbMATH Open document ID: 1440.65025
author: Diego Álvarez
author: M. Moscoso
author: Pedro Gonzalez-Rodriguez
published in: Journal of Scientific Computing
publication date: 2018-12-13T00:00:00Z
review text: Radial basis function interpolation and quasi-interpolation provide a useful approach to the numerical solution of partial differential equations. The reasons why they are excellent candidates for improving classical methods such as finite elements (whose disadvantages include the need for expensive recomputation when nodes are added) and parametrisations of manifolds into flat surfaces (which can lead to singularities, e.g., of the north and south poles when the PDEs are related to spheres) are multiple: radial basis functions are available for an arbitrary number of scattered data in any dimension, they give high, sometimes spectral, asymptotic convergence, they can be computed in many cases efficiently and stably, and they are flexible using adaptive parameters such as the \(c\) in the most often used multiquadrics RBF \(\phi(r)=\sqrt{r^2+c^2}\). Sometimes local RBF methods are used which are similar to finite difference methods (sometimes in fact called RBF-FD algorithms), in that differences of shifts of radial basis functions that decay are used as bases instead. These are called also quasi-Lagrange functions in view of the Lagrange functions for interpolants. In the case of the asymptotically increasing multiquadrics for instance, these quasi-Lagrange functions decay at an algebraic (negative) rate. In this article, Laplace Beltrami operators are used to define the equations (e.g., diffusion, reaction-diffusion) to be solved on smooth surfaces in three dimensions. The paper provides closed forms of the operator and of the radial basis function approximation. The approximation is represented implicitly which has the advantage that the surface never has to be computed explicitly, it is represented by level sets, and the approximation is a function from which normals and curvature are computed. The implicit function \(\Psi\) is defined such that it is zero on the manifold and does not vanish at points outside. In the implementation, these outside points are chos…
reviewed by: Martin D. Buhmann
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 65D12
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 35R01
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 41A30
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 58J05
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 92C55
zbMATH DE Number: 6993318
zbMATH Keywords: radial basis functions
zbMATH Keywords: surface Laplacian
zbMATH Keywords: surface PDE
zbMATH Keywords: cardiology
MaRDI profile type: Publication
full work available at URL: s10915-018-0739-1
OpenAlex ID: W2805252393
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Wikidata QID: Q129758667
DOI: 10.1007/S10915-018-0739-1
description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 6993318