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We derive and analyze a broad class of finite element methods for numerically simulating the stationary, low Reynolds number flow of concentrated mixtures of several distinct chemical species in a common thermodynamic phase. The underlying…

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The finite element method is applied to obtain numerical solutions to the recently derived nonlinear equation for shallow water wave problem for several cases of bottom shapes. Results for time evolution of KdV solitons and cnoidal waves…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-04-15 Anna Karczewska , i Maciej Szczeciński , Piotr Rozmej , Bartosz Boguniewicz

By generalizing the notion of linearization, a concept originally arising from microlocal analysis and symbolic calculus, to diffeological spaces, we make a first proposal setting for optimization problems in this category. We show how…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-03 Jean-Pierre Magnot

We extend the DeTurck trick from the classical isotropic curve shortening flow to the anisotropic setting. Here the anisotropic energy density is allowed to depend on space, which allows an interpretation in the context of Finsler metrics,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-12-13 Klaus Deckelnick , Robert Nürnberg

A finite element methodology for large classes of variational boundary value problems is defined which involves discretizing two linear operators: (1) the differential operator defining the spatial boundary value problem; and (2) a Riesz…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-12-08 Brendan Keith , Socratis Petrides , Federico Fuentes , Leszek Demkowicz

Spaces where each element describes a shape, so-called shape spaces, are of particular interest in shape optimization and its applications. Theory and algorithms in shape optimization are often based on techniques from differential…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-01 Lidiya Pryymak , Tim Suchan , Kathrin Welker

We propose a novel shape representation useful for analyzing and processing shape collections, as well for a variety of learning and inference tasks. Unlike most approaches that capture variability in a collection by using a template model…

Graphics · Computer Science 2018-06-13 Ruqi Huang , Panos Achlioptas , Leonidas Guibas , Maks Ovsjanikov

We present a finite element discretization of a non-linear diffusion equation used in the field of critical phenomena and, more recently, in the context of Dynamic Density Functional Theory. The discretized equation preserves the structure…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-23 J. A. de la Torre , Pep Español , Aleksandar Donev

$L^2$ norm error estimates of semi- and full discretisations, using bulk--surface finite elements and Runge--Kutta methods, of wave equations with dynamic boundary conditions are studied. The analysis resides on an abstract formulation and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-06-28 David Hipp , Balázs Kovács

A finite-element algorithm for computing free-surface flows driven by arbitrary body forces is presented. The algorithm is primarily designed for the microfluidic parameter range where (i) the Reynolds number is small and (ii) force-driven…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Schindler , P. Talkner , P. Hanggi

We introduce a new formalism to study nonequilibrium steady-state currents in stochastic field theories. We show that generalizing the exterior derivative to functional spaces allows identifying the subspaces in which the system undergoes…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-09-30 Jérémy O'Byrne

This paper presents a shape-theoretic framework for dynamical analysis of nonlinear dynamical systems which appear frequently in several video-based inference tasks. Traditional approaches to dynamical modeling have included linear and…

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Two-dimensional free-surface potential flows of an ideal fluid over a strongly inhomogeneous bottom are investigated with the help of conformal mappings. Weakly-nonlinear and exact nonlinear equations of motion are derived by the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-09-08 V. P. Ruban

The nonlinear dynamics of axisymmetric, as well as helical, frozen-in vortex structures is investigated by the Hamiltonian method in the framework of ideal incompressible electron magnetohydrodynamics. For description of current-sheet…

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This paper is devoted to the complete classification of space curves under affine transformations in the view of Cartan's theorem. Spivak has introduced the method but has not found the invariants. Furthermore, for the first time, we…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-01-11 Mehdi Nadjafikhah , Ali Mahdipour Shirayeh

In this work, we present a new approach to analyze the gradient flow for a positive semi-definite matrix denoising problem in an extensive-rank and high-dimensional regime. We use recent linear pencil techniques of random matrix theory to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-03-17 Antoine Bodin , Nicolas Macris

Due to the potential application of regulating droplet shape by external fields in microfluidic technology and micro devices, it becomes increasingly important to understand the shape formation of a droplet in the presence of an electric…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-05-28 Jing Li , Kaiqiang Wen , Ke Xiao , Xiaoming Chen , Chen-Xu Wu

We discuss computational and qualitative aspects of the fractional Plateau and the prescribed fractional mean curvature problems on bounded domains subject to exterior data being a subgraph. We recast these problems in terms of energy…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-14 Juan Pablo Borthagaray , Wenbo Li , Ricardo H. Nochetto

Invariant manifolds are important constructs for the quantitative and qualitative understanding of nonlinear phenomena in dynamical systems. In nonlinear damped mechanical systems, for instance, spectral submanifolds have emerged as useful…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2021-10-15 Shobhit Jain , George Haller

In this study, a new set of fifth-order Stokes wave solutions, incorporating the effects of a linear shear current, is derived by utilizing the perturbation method originally proposed for pure waves that was recently published. The present…

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