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Chern-Simons topological field theories TFTs are the only TFTs that have already found application in the description of some exotic strongly-correlated electron systems and the corresponding concept of topological quantum computing. Here,…

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Finite element approximation of the velocity-pressure formulation of the surfaces Stokes equations is challenging because it is typically not possible to enforce both tangentiality and $H^1$ conformity of the velocity field. Most previous…

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We develop a fully discrete scheme for time-fractional diffusion equations by using a finite difference method in time and a finite element method in space. The fractional derivatives are used in Caputo sense. Stability and error estimates…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-08-05 Moulay Rchid Sidi Ammi , Ismail Jamiai , Delfim F. M. Torres

This paper presents a new finite difference method, called {\varphi}-FD, inspired by the {\phi}-FEM approach for solving elliptic partial differential equations (PDEs) on general geometries. The proposed method uses Cartesian grids,…

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An efficient numerical method is proposed for computing the Dirichlet-to-Neumann (DtN) map associated with the exterior Dirichlet problem for the two-dimensional Helmholtz equation with an inhomogeneous term. The exterior solution is…

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We apply two families of novel fractional $\theta$-methods, the FBT-$\theta$ and FBN-$\theta$ methods developed by the authors in previous work, to the fractional Cable model, in which the time direction is approximated by the fractional…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-11 Baoli Yin , Yang Liu , Hong Li , Zhimin Zhang

The optimization with orthogonality has been shown useful in training deep neural networks (DNNs). To impose orthogonality on DNNs, both computational efficiency and stability are important. However, existing methods utilizing Riemannian…

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We present a novel approach for high-order accurate numerical differentiation on unstructured meshes of quadrilateral elements. To differentiate a given function, an auxiliary function with greater smoothness properties is defined which…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-05-11 Yulong Pan , Per-Olof Persson

The long-range magnetic field is the most time-consuming part in micromagnetic simulations. Improvements both on a numerical and computational basis can relief problems related to this bottleneck. This work presents an efficient…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-08-23 Pietro Palmesi , Lukas Exl , Florian Bruckner , Claas Abert , Dieter Suess

Designing topological materials with specific topological indices is a complex inverse problem, traditionally tackled through manual, intuition-driven methods that are neither scalable nor efficient for exploring the vast space of possible…

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We propose conditioning field initialization for neural network based topology optimization. In this work, we focus on (1) improving upon existing neural network based topology optimization, (2) demonstrating that by using a prior initial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Hongrui Chen , Aditya Joglekar , Levent Burak Kara

We present a simple method to efficiently compute a lower limit of the topological entropy and its spatial distribution for two-dimensional mappings. These mappings could represent either two-dimensional time-periodic fluid flows or…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-10-19 Simon Candelaresi , David Ian Pontin , Gunnar Hornig

Here, we report a numerical implementation of the nonlocal homogenization approach recently proposed in [M. Silveirinha, Phys. Rev. B 75, 115104 (2007)], using the finite difference frequency-domain method to discretize the…

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The concurrent optimization of topology and fibre orientation is a promising approach to pursue higher strength and lighter weight of variable-stiffness structure. This study proposes a novel discrete-continuous scheme for the concurrent…

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This paper presents an innovative continuous linear finite element approach to effectively solve biharmonic problems on surfaces. The key idea behind this method lies in the strategic utilization of a surface gradient recovery operator to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-30 Ying Cai , Hailong Guo , Zhimin Zhang

The paper presents a new method for shape and topology optimization based on an efficient and scalable boundary integral formulation for elasticity. To optimize topology, our approach uses iterative extraction of isosurfaces of a…

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We propose some new mixed finite element methods for the time dependent stochastic Stokes equations with multiplicative noise, which use the Helmholtz decomposition of the driving multiplicative noise. It is known [16] that the pressure…

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We describe high order accurate and stable fully-discrete finite difference schemes for the initial-boundary value problem associated with the magnetic induction equations. These equations model the evolution of a magnetic field due to a…

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We discuss realization, properties and performance of the adaptive finite element approach to the design of nano-photonic components. Central issues are the construction of vectorial finite elements and the embedding of bounded components…

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