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Computational analysis with the finite element method requires geometrically accurate meshes. It is well known that high-order meshes can accurately capture curved surfaces with fewer degrees of freedom in comparison to low-order meshes.…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Ketan Mittal , Veselin A. Dobrev , Patrick Knupp , Tzanio Kolev , Franck Ledoux , Claire Roche , Vladimir Z. Tomov

Solving the wave equation is essential to seismic imaging and inversion. The numerical solution of the Helmholtz equation, fundamental to this process, often encounters significant computational and memory challenges. We propose an…

Geophysics · Physics 2025-04-01 Xinquan Huang , Tariq Alkhalifah

Transport properties of a single-mode waveguide with rough boundary are studied by discrimination between two mechanisms of surface scattering, the amplitude and square-gradient ones. Although these mechanisms are generically mixed, we show…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-30 Manuel Rendón , Felix M. Izrailev , Nykolay M. Makarov

Surface parameterization is a fundamental concept in fields such as differential geometry and computer graphics. It involves mapping a surface in three-dimensional space onto a two-dimensional parameter space. This process allows for the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-16 Shu-Yung Liu , Mei-Heng Yueh

Formulas are derived for solutions of many-body wave scattering problems by small particles in the case of acoustically soft, hard, and impedance particles embedded in an inhomogeneous medium. The limiting case is considered, when the size…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-05-10 Alexander G. Ramm

Consider a 2-plane $P \subset \mathbb{C}^n$ and let $D$ be a bounded region in $P$ with a piecewise-smooth boundary. Let $I(D)$ be the infimum of areas of all piecewise-smooth isotropic surfaces in $\mathbb{C}^n$ with the same boundary as…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Edward Goldstein

This paper proposes a simple technique of curve and surface construction with B-splines. Given a control polygon or a control mesh together with node ordinates corresponding to all control points, a rational curve or surface is obtained by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-02 Xunnian Yang

A method for detecting and approximating fault lines or surfaces, respectively, or decision curves in two and three dimensions with guaranteed accuracy is presented. Reformulated as a classification problem, our method starts from a set of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-02-17 Matthias Grajewski , Andreas Kleefeld

In this paper, we present a surface remeshing method with high approximation quality based on Principal Component Analysis. Given a triangular mesh and a user assigned polygon/vertex budget, traditional methods usually require the extra…

Graphics · Computer Science 2018-04-10 Yiqi Cai , Xiaohu Guo , Yang Liu , Wenping Wang , Weihua Mao , Zichun Zhong

We consider an inverse scattering problem for time-harmonic acoustic or electromagnetic waves. The goal is to localize several small penetrable objects embedded inside an otherwise homogeneous background medium from observations of far…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-04-05 Roland Griesmaier , Christian Schmiedecke

Surfaces are typically represented as meshes, which can be extracted from volumetric fields via meshing or optimized directly as surface parameterizations. Volumetric representations occupy 3D space and have a large effective receptive…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Ruiqi Zhang , Jiacheng Wu , Jie Chen

A new sampling method for inverse scattering problems is proposed to process far field data of one incident wave. As the linear sampling method, the method sets up ill-posed integral equations and uses the (approximate) solutions to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-08-01 Juan Liu , Jiguang Sun

Non-relativistic particles that are effectively confined to two dimensions can in general move on curved surfaces, allowing dynamical phenomena beyond what can be described with scalar potentials or even vector gauge fields. Here we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-15 James R. Anglin , Etienne Wamba

We consider the scattering of time-harmonic plane waves by a compactly supported inhomogeneous scattering obstacle governed by the Helmholtz equation. Given far field observations of the scattered fields corresponding to plane wave incident…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-03 Roland Griesmaier , Bastian Harrach , Jianli Xiang

This expository paper provides a unified and pedagogical introduction to optimal quantization for probability measures supported on spherical curves and discrete subsets of the sphere, emphasizing both continuous and discrete settings. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-25 Mrinal Kanti Roychowdhury

In this work, our aim is to reconstruct the unknown initial value from terminal data. We develop a numerical framework on nonuniform time grids for fractional wave equations under the lower regularity assumptions. Then, we introduce a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-25 Dakang Cen , Zhiyuan Li , Wenlong Zhang

This paper presents a study of acoustic scattering by a cylinder of either infinite or finite length near a flat pressure-release surface. A novel self-consistent method is developed to describe the multiple scattering interactions between…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Zhen Ye , You-Yu Chen

We describe a simple geometric transformation of triangles which leads to an efficient and effective algorithm to smooth triangle and tetrahedral meshes. Our focus lies on the convergence properties of this algorithm: we prove the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-11-18 Dimitris Vartziotis , Doris Bohnet

Relying on Feynman-Kac path-integral methodology, we present a new statistical perspective on wave single-scattering by complex three-dimensional objects. The approach is implemented on three models -- Schiff approximation, Born…

The symmetries of surfaces which can be embedded into the symmetries of the 3-dimensional Euclidean space $\mathbb{R}^3$ are easier to feel by human's intuition. We give the maximum order of finite group actions on $(\mathbb{R}^3, \Sigma)$…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2017-04-24 Chao Wang , Shicheng Wang , Yimu Zhang , Bruno Zimmermann