English
Related papers

Related papers: Global Minimum for a Finsler Elastica Minimal Path…

200 papers

Elastic geodesic grids deploy from flat to spatial configurations via complex nonlinear motion that is difficult to represent robustly for simulation. We present a geometric guidance framework that discretizes deployment as synchronized,…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Stefan Pillwein , Alexander Hentschel , Markus Lukacevic , Przemyslaw Musialski

This paper proposes a low order geometrically exact flexible beam formulation based on the utilisation of generic beam shape functions to approximate distributed kinematic properties of the deformed structure. The proposed nonlinear beam…

Classical Physics · Physics 2018-09-05 C. Howcroft , R. G. Cook , S. A. Neild , M. H. Lowenberg , J. E. Cooper , E. B. Coetzee

Euler's elastica model has been extensively studied and applied to image processing tasks. However, due to the high nonlinearity and nonconvexity of the involved curvature term, conventional algorithms suffer from slow convergence and high…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-06 Yinghui Zhang , Xiaojuan Deng , Jun Zhang , Hongwei Li

Curves of maximal slope are a reference gradient-evolution notion in metric spaces and arise as variational formulation of a vast class of nonlinear diffusion equations. Existence theories for curves of maximal slope are often based on…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-03-02 Ulisse Stefanelli

Euler's elastica model has a wide range of applications in Image Processing and Computer Vision. However, the non-convexity, the non-smoothness and the nonlinearity of the associated energy functional make its minimization a challenging…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-01-10 Liang-Jian Deng , Roland Glowinski , Xue-Cheng Tai

We propose a model for finding one-dimensional structure in a given measure. Our approach is based on minimizing an objective functional which combines the average-distance functional to measure the quality of the approximation and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-01-01 Xinyang Lu , Dejan Slepcev

Efficient algorithms for the calculation of minimum energy paths of magnetic transitions are implemented within the geodesic nudged elastic band (GNEB) approach. While an objective function is not available for GNEB and a traditional line…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-11-30 Aleksei V. Ivanov , Damjan Dagbartsson , Julien Tranchida , Valery M. Uzdin , Hannes Jónsson

The paper considers the Euler system of PDE on a smooth compact Riemannian manifold of positive curvature without boundary, and the sphere ${\mathbb{S}}^2$ in particular. The paper interprets the Euler equations as a transport problem for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-11-24 Gordon Blower

We introduce a novel approach for object segmentation from 3D images using modified minimal path Eikonal equation. The proposed method utilizes an implicit constraint - a second order correction to the inhomogeneous minimal path Eikonal -…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Jozsef Molnar , Peter Horvath

The Euler-Poincar\'e (EP) equations describe the geodesic motion on the diffeomorphism group. For template matching (template deformation), the Euler-Lagrangian equation, arising from minimizing an energy function, falls into the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-10-15 Roberto Camassa , Dongyang Kuang , Long Lee

We develop a geometric framework for irreversible transport phenomena in which macroscopic evolution equations arise from the combined structure of a thermodynamic state metric and an Onsager-based dissipation metric. The construction…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-14 Sami Lakka

A new geometrical definition of naturally reductive Finsler manifold using geodeic graph is proposed, with a possible generalization. Based on a construction from a recent paper by the authors, Finsler metrics based on naturally reductive…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-28 Teresa Arias-Marco , Zdenek Dusek

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

Popular methods for identifying transition paths between energy minima, such as the nudged elastic band and string methods, typically do not incorporate potential energy curvature information, leading to slow relaxation to the minimum…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-03-11 Stela Makri , Christoph Ortner , James R. Kermode

Geodesic paths and distances are among the most popular intrinsic properties of 3D surfaces. Traditionally, geodesic paths on discrete polygon surfaces were computed using shortest path algorithms, such as Dijkstra. However, such algorithms…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Rolandos Alexandros Potamias , Alexandros Neofytou , Kyriaki-Margarita Bintsi , Stefanos Zafeiriou

We propose an energy-stable parametric finite element method (ES-PFEM) to discretize the motion of a closed curve under surface diffusion with an anisotropic surface energy $\gamma(\theta)$ -- anisotropic surface diffusion -- in two…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-10-26 Yifei Li , Weizhu Bao

We consider discretized two-dimensional PDE-constrained shape optimization problems, in which shapes are represented by triangular meshes. Given the connectivity, the space of admissible vertex positions was recently identified to be a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-17 Roland Herzog , Estefanía Loayza-Romero

We give a lower bound for the length of a non-trivial geodesic loop on a simply-connected and compact manifold of even dimension with a non-reversible Finsler metric of positive flag curvature. Harris and Paternain use this estimate in…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-06-01 Hans-Bert Rademacher

In this paper, we propose an unfitted finite element method to solve PDE-constrained shape optimization problems via shape gradient flow. The shape gradient flow system consists of the state equation, the adjoint equation, the velocity…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-13 Wei Gong , Chuwen Ma , Ziyi Zhang

The aim of this note is to compare the averaged optimal coplanar transfer towards circular orbits when the costs are the transfer time transfer and the energy consumption. While the energy case leads to analyze a 2D Riemannian metric using…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-08-25 Bernard Bonnard , Helen Henninger , Jana Nemcova , Jean-Baptiste Pomet