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most citedSolving eigenvalue problems on curved surfaces using the Closest Point Method

87 citations · 303 across the 21 of their papers we have counts for

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24 papers

math.NA2026

Deep-Learning Solvers and Surrogates for Infinity and p-Laplace Problems

Tak Shing Au Yeung, Ka Chun Cheung, Hannah Potgieter +2

We investigate the use of neural network solvers for infinity and -Laplace problems, which are fundamental in nonlinear analysis and have practical applications. Our approach em…

math.NA2025

Numerical approximation of the first -Laplace eigenpair

Hannah Potgieter, Razvan C. Fetecau, Steven J. Ruuth

We approximate the first Dirichlet eigenpair of the -Laplace operator for on both Euclidean and surface domains. We emphasize large values and discuss ho…

math.NA2025

High-Order Meshfree Surface Integration, Including Singular Integrands

Daniel R. Venn, Steven J. Ruuth

We develop and test high-order methods for integration on surface point clouds. The task of integrating a function on a surface arises in a range of applications in engineering and…

cs.GR2025

Geodesic distance approximation using a surface finite element method for the -Laplacian

Hannah Potgieter, Razvan C. Fetecau, Steven J. Ruuth

We use the -Laplacian with large -values in order to approximate geodesic distances to features on surfaces. This differs from Fayolle and Belyaev's (2018) [1] computational…

math.NA2024★ 6 cited

A Meshfree RBF-FD Constant along Normal Method for Solving PDEs on Surfaces

Víctor Bayona, Argyrios Petras, Cécile Piret +1

This paper introduces a novel meshfree methodology based on Radial Basis Function-Finite Difference (RBF-FD) approximations for the numerical solution of partial differential equat…

physics.flu-dyn2024

Simulation of the high Mach number motion for bubble collapse in a compressible Euler fluid using Basilisk

Daniels Krimans, Steven J. Ruuth, Seth Putterman

We examine an extreme case of experimentally realizable sonoluminescence, where spherical cavities have an initial radius that is to times their ambient radius and change…

math.NA2024★ 2 cited

A Meshfree Method for Eigenvalues of Differential Operators on Surfaces, Including Steklov Problems

Daniel R. Venn, Steven J. Ruuth

We present and study techniques for investigating the spectra of linear differential operators on surfaces and flat domains using symmetric meshfree methods: meshfree methods that…

math.NA2024★ 1 cited

Underdetermined Fourier Extensions for Surface Partial Differential Equations

Daniel R. Venn, Steven J. Ruuth

We analyze and test using Fourier extensions that minimize a Hilbert space norm for the purpose of solving partial differential equations (PDEs) on surfaces. In particular, we prov…

cs.GR2023★ 6 cited

A Closest Point Method for PDEs on Manifolds with Interior Boundary Conditions for Geometry Processing

Nathan King, Haozhe Su, Mridul Aanjaneya +2

Many geometry processing techniques require the solution of partial differential equations (PDEs) on manifolds embedded in or , such as curves or surfa…

math.NA2023

Realistic pattern formations on surfaces by adding arbitrary roughness

Siqing Li, Leevan Ling, Steven J. Ruuth +1

We are interested in generating surfaces with arbitrary roughness and forming patterns on the surfaces. Two methods are applied to construct rough surfaces. In the first method, so…

math.NA2021★ 1 cited

A closest point method library for PDEs on surfaces with parallel domain decomposition solvers and preconditioners

Ian C. T. May, Ronald D. Haynes, Steven J. Ruuth

The DD-CPM software library provides a set of tools for the discretization and solution of problems arising from the closest point method (CPM) for partial differential equations o…

math.NA2021

A Convergence Analysis of the Parallel Schwarz Solution of the Continuous Closest Point Method

Alireza Yazdani, Ronald D. Haynes, Steven J. Ruuth

The discretization of surface intrinsic PDEs has challenges that one might not face in the flat space. The closest point method (CPM) is an embedding method that represents surface…

math.NA2021

Linearly Stabilized Schemes for the Time Integration of Stiff Nonlinear PDEs

Kevin Chow, Steven J. Ruuth

In many applications, the governing PDE to be solved numerically contains a stiff component. When this component is linear, an implicit time stepping method that is unencumbered by…

math.NA2020★ 12 cited

Boundary treatment of high order Runge-Kutta methods for hyperbolic conservation laws

Weifeng Zhao, Juntao Huang, Steven J. Ruuth

In \cite{ZH2019}, we developed a boundary treatment method for implicit-explicit (IMEX) Runge-Kutta (RK) methods for solving hyperbolic systems with source terms. Since IMEX RK met…

math.NA2019★ 34 cited

PDEs on moving surfaces via the closest point method and a modified grid based particle method

A. Petras, S. J. Ruuth

Partial differential equations (PDEs) on surfaces arise in a wide range of applications. The closest point method (Ruuth and Merriman, J. Comput. Phys. 227(3):1943-1961, [2008]) is…

math.NA2019

Schwarz solvers and preconditioners for the closest point method

Ian May, Ronald Haynes, Steven Ruuth

The discretization of surface intrinsic elliptic partial differential equations (PDEs) poses interesting challenges not seen in flat space. The discretization of these PDEs typical…

math.NA2019

Domain Decomposition for the Closest Point Method

Ian May, Ronald D. Haynes, Steven J. Ruuth

The discretization of elliptic PDEs leads to large coupled systems of equations. Domain decomposition methods (DDMs) are one approach to the solution of these systems, and can spli…

math.NA2019★ 50 cited

A least-squares implicit RBF-FD closest point method and applications to PDEs on moving surfaces

A. Petras, L. Ling, C. Piret +1

The closest point method (Ruuth and Merriman, J. Comput. Phys. 227(3):1943-1961, [2008]) is an embedding method developed to solve a variety of partial differential equations (PDEs…

math.NA2018★ 74 cited

An RBF-FD closest point method for solving PDEs on surfaces

Argyrios Petras, Leevan Ling, Steven J. Ruuth

Partial differential equations (PDEs) on surfaces appear in many applications throughout the natural and applied sciences. The classical closest point method (Ruuth and Merriman, J…

math.NA2017★ 5 cited

Solving variational problems and partial differential equations that map between manifolds via the closest point method

Nathan D. King, Steven J. Ruuth

Maps from a source manifold to a target manifold appear in liquid crystals, colour image enhancement, texture mapping, brain mapping, and many other…

math.NA2013★ 24 cited

Spatially partitioned embedded Runge-Kutta methods

David I. Ketcheson, Colin B. Macdonald, Steven J. Ruuth

We study spatially partitioned embedded Runge--Kutta (SPERK) schemes for partial differential equations (PDEs), in which each of the component schemes is applied over a different p…

math.NA2012★ 1 cited

An Embedding Technique for the Solution of Reaction-Diffusion Equations on Algebraic Surfaces with Isolated Singularities

Parousia Rockstroh, Thomas März, Steven J. Ruuth

In this paper we construct a parametrization-free embedding technique for numerically evolving reaction-diffusion PDEs defined on algebraic curves that possess an isolated singular…

math.NA2011★ 87 cited

Solving eigenvalue problems on curved surfaces using the Closest Point Method

Colin B. Macdonald, Jeremy Brandman, Steven J. Ruuth

Eigenvalue problems are fundamental to mathematics and science. We present a simple algorithm for determining eigenvalues and eigenfunctions of the Laplace--Beltrami operator on ra…

physics.comp-ph2001

Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Sonoluminescence: Modeling, Algorithms and Simulation Results

Steven J. Ruuth, Seth Putterman, Barry Merriman

Sonoluminescence is the phenomena of light emission from a collapsing gas bubble in a liquid. Theoretical explanations of this extreme energy focusing are controversial and difficu…