A meshfree collocation scheme for surface differential operators on point clouds

DOI10.1007/S10915-023-02313-3zbMATH Open1522.65154arXiv2205.10898OpenAlexW4385630708MaRDI QIDQ6134428FDOQ6134428

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Publication date: 22 August 2023

Published in: Journal of Scientific Computing (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We present a mesh-free collocation scheme to discretize intrinsic surface differential operators over surface point clouds with given normal vectors. The method is based on Discretization-Corrected Particle Strength Exchange (DC-PSE), which generalizes finite difference methods to mesh-free point clouds and moving Lagrangian particles. The resulting Surface DC-PSE method is derived from an embedding theorem, but we analytically reduce the operator kernels along the surface normals, resulting in an embedding-free, purely surface-intrinsic computational scheme. We benchmark the scheme by discretizing the Laplace-Beltrami operator on a circle and a sphere, and present convergence results for both explicit and implicit solvers. We then showcase the algorithm on the problem of computing mean curvature of an ellipsoid and of the Stanford Bunny by evaluating the surface divergence of the normal vector field with the proposed Surface DC-PSE method.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.10898

zbMATH Keywords

collocationmeshfree methodssurface differential operatorspartial differential equations on surfacesintrinsic calculus

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs on manifolds (35R01) Finite difference methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M06) Finite difference methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N06) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N30) Spectral, collocation and related methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N35) Numerical differentiation (65D25) Spectral, collocation and related methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M70)

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