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This paper is concerned with the nonconforming finite element discretization of geometric partial differential equations. In specific, we construct a surface Crouzeix-Raviart element on the linear approximated surface, analogous to a flat…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-08-12 Hailong Guo

Partial differential equations (PDEs) are widely used across the physical and computational sciences. Decades of research and engineering went into designing fast iterative solution methods. Existing solvers are general purpose, but may be…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-23 Jun-Ting Hsieh , Shengjia Zhao , Stephan Eismann , Lucia Mirabella , Stefano Ermon

Recently, researchers have utilized neural networks to accurately solve partial differential equations (PDEs), enabling the mesh-free method for scientific computation. Unfortunately, the network performance drops when encountering a high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Pongpisit Thanasutives , Masayuki Numao , Ken-ichi Fukui

This paper proposes a mesh-free computational framework and machine learning theory for solving elliptic PDEs on unknown manifolds, identified with point clouds, based on diffusion maps (DM) and deep learning. The PDE solver is formulated…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-02-28 Senwei Liang , Shixiao W. Jiang , John Harlim , Haizhao Yang

We present projected walk on spheres (PWoS), a novel pointwise and discretization-free Monte Carlo solver for surface PDEs with Dirichlet boundaries, as a generalization of the walk on spheres method (WoS) [Muller 1956; Sawhney and Crane…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-21 Ryusuke Sugimoto , Nathan King , Toshiya Hachisuka , Christopher Batty

Spherical radial basis functions are used to define approximate solutions to strongly elliptic pseudodifferential equations on the unit sphere. These equations arise from geodesy. The approximate solutions are found by the Galerkin and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-11-27 T. D. Pham , T. Tran

Generalizing the well-known relations on characteristic functions on a plane to the case of a one-dimensional regular surface (curve) with compact support, we establish implicit equations for these functions. Introducing an approximation,…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 D. S. Grebenkov

Partial differential equations (PDEs) are at the heart of many mathematical and scientific advances. While great progress has been made on the theory of PDEs of standard types during the last eight decades, the analysis of nonlinear PDEs of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-08-16 Gui-Qiang G. Chen

This paper develops a probabilistic numerical method for solution of partial differential equations (PDEs) and studies application of that method to PDE-constrained inverse problems. This approach enables the solution of challenging inverse…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-07-12 Jon Cockayne , Chris Oates , Tim Sullivan , Mark Girolami

Surface mapping plays an important role in geometric processing. They induce both area and angular distortions. If the angular distortion is bounded, the mapping is called a {\it quasi-conformal} map. Many surface maps in our physical world…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-29 W. Zeng , L. M. Lui , F. Luo , J. S. Liu , T. F. Chan , S. T. Yau , X. F. Gu

This paper is a companion paper to [Lipman and Daubechies 2011]. We provide numerical procedures and algorithms for computing the alignment of and distance between two disk type surfaces. We provide a convergence analysis of the discrete…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-02-18 Yaron Lipman , Jesus Puente , Ingrid Daubechies

Whether integrable, partially integrable or nonintegrable, nonlinear partial differential equations (PDEs) can be handled from scratch with essentially the same toolbox, when one looks for analytic solutions in closed form. The basic tool…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2017-10-16 Robert Conte

Motivated by recent research on Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs), we make the first attempt to introduce the PINNs for numerical simulation of the elliptic Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) on 3D manifolds. PINNs are one of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-05 Zhuochao Tang , Zhuojia Fu

We propose a finite-dimensional control-based method to approximate solution operators for evolutional partial differential equations (PDEs), particularly in high-dimensions. By employing a general reduced-order model, such as a deep neural…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-22 Nathan Gaby , Xiaojing Ye

We develop a finite element method for elliptic partial differential equations on so called composite surfaces that are built up out of a finite number of surfaces with boundaries that fit together nicely in the sense that the intersection…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-01-03 Peter Hansbo , Tobias Jonsson , Mats G. Larson , Karl Larsson

Motivated by conforming finite element methods for elliptic problems of second order, we analyze the approximation of the gradient of a target function by continuous piecewise polynomial functions over a simplicial mesh. The main result is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-03-07 Andreas Veeser

In this paper we shall introduce a simple, effective numerical method for finding differential operators for scalar and vector-valued functions on surfaces. The key idea of our algorithm is to develop an intrinsic and unified way to compute…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2011-09-02 Sheng-Gwo Chen , Jyh-Yang Wu

At present, deep learning based methods are being employed to resolve the computational challenges of high-dimensional partial differential equations (PDEs). But the computation of the high order derivatives of neural networks is costly,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-17 Quanhui Zhu , Jiang Yang

We present a simple, accurate method for computing singular or nearly singular integrals on a smooth, closed surface, such as layer potentials for harmonic functions evaluated at points on or near the surface. The integral is computed with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-10 J. Thomas Beale , Wenjun Ying , Jason R. Wilson

Scattering amplitudes for colored theories have recently been formulated in a new way, in terms of curves on surfaces. In this note we describe a canonical set of functions we call surface functions, associated to all orders in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-08 Nima Arkani-Hamed , Hadleigh Frost , Giulio Salvatori