Point Cloud Quality for Meshfree Methods

DOI10.48550/arXiv.2608.20872MaRDI QIDQ7285096arXivFDO

Authors Mohsen Abdolahzadeh, O. Davydov, Isabel Michel, Pratik Suchde, Oleg Davydov

Publication date 21 August 2026

Published in arXiv

Tldr We compare and contrast existing point cloud quality metrics and introduce new ones; extensive numerical tests show six consistent indicators of point cloud quality for meshfree collocation methods.

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2608.20872

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Spectral, collocation and related methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N35) Mesh generation, refinement, and adaptive methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N50)

arXiv classification

cs.CEmath.NA

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