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We develop a stabilized cut finite element method for the stationary convection diffusion problem on a surface embedded in ${\mathbb{R}}^d$. The cut finite element method is based on using an embedding of the surface into a three…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-07-24 Erik Burman , Peter Hansbo , Mats G. Larson , Andre Massing , Sara Zahedi

In this paper, we introduce a shallow (one-hidden-layer) physics-informed neural network for solving partial differential equations on static and evolving surfaces. For the static surface case, with the aid of level set function, the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-20 Wei-Fan Hu , Yi-Jun Shih , Te-Sheng Lin , Ming-Chih Lai

An isogeometric approach for solving the Laplace-Beltrami equation on a two-dimensional manifold embedded in three-dimensional space using a Galerkin method based on Catmull-Clark subdivision surfaces is presented and assessed. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-26 Zhaowei Liu , Andrew McBride , Prashant Saxena , Paul Steinmann

Elliptic partial differential equations on surfaces play an essential role in geometry, relativity theory, phase transitions, materials science, image processing, and other applications. They are typically governed by the Laplace-Beltrami…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-01-03 Andrea Bonito , Alan Demlow , Justin Owen

The conjugate function method is an algorithm for numerical computation of conformal mappings for simply and multiply connected domains. In this paper, the conjugate function method is extended to cover conformal mappings between Riemannian…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-22 Harri Hakula , Antti Rasila

We present a new approach for adding Bernoulli beam reinforcements to Kirchhoff plates. The plate is discretised using a continuous/discontinuous finite element method based on standard continuous piecewise polynomial finite element spaces.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-06-06 Erik Burman , Peter Hansbo , Mats G. Larson

In this paper we develop a simple finite element method for simulation of embedded layers of high permeability in a matrix of lower permeability using a basic model of Darcy flow in embedded cracks. The cracks are allowed to cut through the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-09-05 Erik Burman , Peter Hansbo , Mats G. Larson

The main objective of this paper is to derive the Enneper-Weierstrass representation of minimal surfaces in $\mathbb{E}^3$ using the soliton surface approach. We exploit the Bryant-type representation of conformally parametrized surfaces in…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-11-10 A Doliwa , A M Grundland

The numerical computation of shortest paths or geodesics on surfaces, along with the associated geodesic distance, has a wide range of applications. Compared to Euclidean distance computation, these tasks are more complex due to the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-11 Hailiang Liu , Laura Zinnel

We review the main features of an unfitted finite element method for interface and fluid-structure interaction problems based on a distributed Lagrange multiplier in the spirit of the fictitious domain approach. We recall our theoretical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-03 Najwa Alshehri , Daniele Boffi , Fabio Credali , Lucia Gastaldi

This paper studies a model of two-phase flow with an immersed material viscous interface and a finite element method for numerical solution of the resulting system of PDEs. The interaction between the bulk and surface media is characterized…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-08 Maxim Olshanskii , Annalisa Quaini , Qi Sun

In this paper, we present a new immersed finite element scheme for solving elliptic interface problems on unfitted meshes by combining the skeletal finite element method (FEM) with the standard FEM. The skeletal FEM is used for the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-17 Lin Yang , Qilong Zhai

Minimization of energy functionals is based on a discretization by the finite element method and optimization by the trust-region method. A key tool is a local evaluation of the approximated gradients together with sparsity of the resulting…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-05-12 Ctirad Matonoha , Alexej Moskovka , Jan Valdman

In this paper we prove that a complete, embedded minimal surface $M$ in $\mathbb{R}^3$ with finite topology and compact boundary (possibly empty) is conformally a compact Riemann surface $\overline{M}$ with boundary punctured in a finite…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-06-26 William H. Meeks , Joaquin Perez

In the context of unfitted finite element discretizations the realization of high order methods is challenging due to the fact that the geometry approximation has to be sufficiently accurate. We consider a new unfitted finite element method…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-06-27 Christoph Lehrenfeld , Arnold Reusken

High-order spatial discretisations and full discretisations of parabolic partial differential equations on evolving surfaces are studied. We prove convergence of the high-order evolving surface finite element method, by showing high-order…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-06-24 Balázs Kovács

We present a meshfree collocation scheme to discretize intrinsic surface differential operators over scalar fields on smooth curved surfaces with given normal vectors and a non-intersecting tubular neighborhood. The method is based on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-17 Abhinav Singh , Alejandra Foggia , Pietro Incardona , Ivo F. Sbalzarini

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 a recent embedding method that has been used to solve a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-11-04 A. Petras , S. J. Ruuth

We develop a stabilized cut finite element method for the convection problem on a surface based on continuous piecewise linear approximation and gradient jump stabilization terms. The discrete piecewise linear surface cuts through a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-11-10 Erik Burman , Peter Hansbo , Mats G. Larson , Sara Zahedi

We present a boundary integral method, and an accompanying boundary element discretization, for solving boundary-value problems for the Laplace-Beltrami operator on the surface of the unit sphere $\S$ in $\mathbb{R}^3$. We consider a closed…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-11-30 Simon Gemmrich , Nilima Nigam , Olaf Steinbach