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In this note, we derive an approximation for the mean curvature normal vector on vertices of triangulated surface meshes from the Young-Laplace equation and the force balance principle. We then demonstrate that the approximation expression…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-05-26 Sudip Kumar Das , Mirza Cenanovic , Junfeng Zhang

Symmetry-preserving (mimetic) discretization aims to preserve certain properties of a continuous differential operator in its discrete counterpart. For these discretizations, stability and (discrete) conservation of mass, momentum and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-05-13 Bas van 't Hof , Mathea J. Vuik

We discuss notions of Gauss curvature and mean curvature for polyhedral surfaces. The discretizations are guided by the principle of preserving integral relations for curvatures, like the Gauss/Bonnet theorem and the mean-curvature force…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-10-25 John M. Sullivan

Energy distributions of high frequency linear wave fields are often modelled in terms of flow or transport equations with ray dynamics given by a Hamiltonian vector field in phase space. Applications arise in underwater and room acoustics,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2014-08-12 David Chappell , Gregor Tanner , Niels Sondergaard , Dominik Loechel

In recent years, sparse spectral methods for solving partial differential equations have been derived using hierarchies of classical orthogonal polynomials on intervals, disks, disk-slices and triangles. In this work we extend the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-12-22 Ben Snowball , Sheehan Olver

We propose a structure-preserving finite difference scheme for the Cahn-Hilliard equation with a dynamic boundary condition using the discrete variational derivative method (DVDM). In this approach, it is important and essential how to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-17 Makoto Okumura , Takeshi Fukao , Daisuke Furihata , Shuji Yoshikawa

In this article, we present an extension of the splitting algorithm proposed in [22] to networks of conservation laws with piecewise linear discontinuous flux functions in the unknown. We start with the discussion of a suitable Riemann…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-08 Jan Friedrich , Simone Göttlich , Annika Uphoff

Discrete differential geometry aims to develop discrete equivalents of the geometric notions and methods of classical differential geometry. In this survey we discuss the following two fundamental Discretization Principles: the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-06-26 Alexander I. Bobenko , Yuri B. Suris

This work presents a novel interpolation-free mesh adaptation technique for the Euler equations within the arbitrary Lagrangian Eulerian framework. For the spatial discretization, we consider a residual distribution scheme, which provides a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-04-26 Stefano Colombo , Barbara Re

We introduce an approach for calculating non-universal properties of rough surfaces. The technique uses concepts of distinct surface-configuration classes, defined by the surface growth rule. The key idea is a mapping between discrete…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Kolakowska , M. A. Novotny

This paper proposes a distributed weighted regularized least squares algorithm (DWRLS) based on spherical radial basis functions and spherical quadrature rules to tackle spherical data that are stored across numerous local servers and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Han Feng , Shao-Bo Lin , Ding-Xuan Zhou

We construct new, efficient, and accurate high-order finite differencing operators which satisfy summation by parts. Since these operators are not uniquely defined, we consider several optimization criteria: minimizing the bandwidth, the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Peter Diener , Ernst Nils Dorband , Erik Schnetter , Manuel Tiglio

We consider a numerical approach for the incompressible surface Navier-Stokes equation. The approach is based on the covariant form and uses discrete exterior calculus (DEC) in space and a semi-implicit discretization in time. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-11-26 Ingo Nitschke , Sebastian Reuther , Axel Voigt

In this paper we present an algorithmic approach to the generation of fully conservative difference schemes for linear partial differential equations. The approach is based on enlargement of the equations in their integral conservation law…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2008-04-24 Vladimir P. Gerdt , Yuri A. Blinkov , Vladimir V. Mozzhilkin

Though the underlying fields associated with vector-valued environmental data are continuous, observations themselves are discrete. For example, climate models typically output grid-based representations of wind fields or ocean currents,…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-07-29 Michael Gillan , Stefan Siegert , Ben Youngman

We present a differentiable representation, DMesh, for general 3D triangular meshes. DMesh considers both the geometry and connectivity information of a mesh. In our design, we first get a set of convex tetrahedra that compactly tessellates…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Sanghyun Son , Matheus Gadelha , Yang Zhou , Zexiang Xu , Ming C. Lin , Yi Zhou

A new directional derivative and a new subdifferential for set-valued convex functions are constructed, and a set-valued version of the so-called 'max-formula' is proven. The new concepts are used to characterize solutions of convex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-07-24 Andreas H. Hamel , Carola Schrage

We show for a variety of classes of conservative PDEs that discrete gradient methods designed to have a conserved quantity (here called energy) also have a time-discrete conservation law. The discrete conservation law has the same conserved…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-02-20 Robert I McLachlan , G R W Quispel

An analogue of the total variation prior for the normal vector field along the boundary of piecewise flat shapes in 3D is introduced. A major class of examples are triangulated surfaces as they occur for instance in finite element…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-24 Ronny Bergmann , Marc Herrmann , Roland Herzog , Stephan Schmidt , José Vidal Núñez

An evolving surface finite element discretisation is analysed for the evolution of a closed two-dimensional surface governed by a system coupling a generalised forced mean curvature flow and a reaction--diffusion process on the surface,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-06-06 Charles M. Elliott , Harald Garcke , Balázs Kovács