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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

We present a new framework for expressing finite element methods on multiple intersecting meshes: multimesh finite element methods. The framework enables the use of separate meshes to discretize parts of a computational domain that are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-08-28 August Johansson , Benjamin Kehlet , Mats G. Larson , Anders Logg

Maxwell interface problems are of great importance in many electromagnetic applications. Unfitted mesh methods are especially attractive in 3D computation as they can circumvent generating complex 3D interface-fitted meshes. However, many…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-05-30 Long Chen , Ruchi Guo , Jun Zou

At the heart of any finite element simulation is the assembly of matrices and vectors from discrete variational forms. We propose a general interface between problem-specific and general-purpose components of finite element programs. This…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-05-15 Martin Sandve Alnæs , Anders Logg , Kent-Andre Mardal , Ola Skavhaug , Hans Petter Langtangen

Acoustic wave propagation through a homogeneous material embedded in an unbounded medium can be formulated as a boundary integral equation and accurately solved with the boundary element method. The computational efficiency deteriorates at…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-02-21 Elwin van 't Wout

Learning on triangle meshes has recently proven to be instrumental to a myriad of tasks, from shape classification, to segmentation, to deformation and animation, to mention just a few. While some of these applications are tackled through…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Michal Edelstein , Hsueh-Ti Derek Liu , Mirela Ben-Chen

In the present paper, an integrated paradigm for topology optimization on complex surfaces with arbitrary genus is proposed. The approach is constructed based on the two-dimensional (2D) Moving Morphable Component (MMC) framework, where a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-03 Wendong Huo , Chang Liu , Zongliang Du , Xudong Jiang , Zhengyu Liu , Xu Guo

With the rising popularity of virtual worlds, the importance of data-driven parametric models of 3D meshes has grown rapidly. Numerous applications, such as computer vision, procedural generation, and mesh editing, vastly rely on these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-19 Robert Kosk , Richard Southern , Lihua You , Shaojun Bian , Willem Kokke , Greg Maguire

We design and analyze a hybridized cut finite element method for elliptic interface problems. In this method very general meshes can be coupled over internal unfitted interfaces, through a skeletal variable, using a Nitsche type approach.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-30 Erik Burman , Daniel Elfverson , Peter Hansbo , Mats G. Larson , Karl Larsson

We devise a generalization of tree approximation that generates conforming meshes, i.e., meshes with a particular structure like edge-to-edge triangulations. A key feature of this generalization is that the choices of the cells to be…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-01-26 Peter Binev , Francesca Fierro , Andreas Veeser

This paper introduces the MeshAC package, which generates three-dimensional adaptive meshes tailored for the efficient and robust implementation of multiscale coupling methods. While Delaunay triangulation is commonly used for mesh…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Kejie Fu , Mingjie Liao , Yangshuai Wang , Jianjun Chen , Lei Zhang

Edge (or N\'ed\'elec) finite elements are theoretically sound and widely used by the computational electromagnetics community. However, its implementation, specially for high order methods, is not trivial, since it involves many…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-03-20 Marc Olm , Santiago Badia , Alberto F. Martín

A neural network architecture is presented that exploits the multilevel properties of high-dimensional parameter-dependent partial differential equations, enabling an efficient approximation of parameter-to-solution maps, rivaling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Janina Enrica Schütte , Martin Eigel

A new family of mixed finite element methods$-$compatible-strain mixed finite element methods (CSFEMs)$-$are introduced for three-dimensional compressible and incompressible nonlinear elasticity. A Hu-Washizu-type functional is extremized…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2019-10-23 Mostafa Faghih Shojaei , Arash Yavari

We present a high-level domain-specific language (DSL) interface to drive an adaptive incomplete $k$-d tree-based framework for finite element (FEM) solutions to PDEs. This DSL provides three key advances: (a) it abstracts out the…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Eric Heisler , Cheng-Hau Yang , Aadesh Deshmukh , Baskar Ganapathysubramanian , Hari Sundar

We present a three-dimensional (3D) common-refinement method for non-matching meshes between discrete non-overlapping subdomains of incompressible fluid and nonlinear hyperelastic structure. To begin, we first investigate the accuracy of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-08-15 Yulong Li , Yun Zhi Law , Vaibhav Joshi , Rajeev Kumar Jaiman

Materials exhibit geometric structures across mesoscopic to microscopic scales, influencing macroscale properties such as appearance, mechanical strength, and thermal behavior. Capturing and modeling these multiscale structures is…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Bojja Venu , Adam Bosak , Juan Raul Padron-Griffe

This article deals with solving partial differential equations with the finite element method on hybrid non-conforming hexahedral-tetrahedral meshes. By non-conforming, we mean that a quadrangular face of a hexahedron can be connected to…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2016-05-10 Maxence Reberol , Bruno Lévy

We introduce a new class of unfitted finite element methods with high order accurate numerical integration over curved surfaces and volumes which are only implicitly defined by level set functions. An unfitted finite element method which is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-12-10 Christoph Lehrenfeld

In this paper, we develop a novel unfitted multiscale framework that combines two separate scales represented by only one single computational mesh. Our framework relies on a mixed zooming technique where we zoom at regions of interest to…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2022-05-27 Ehsan Mikaeili , Susanne Claus , Pierre Kerfriden