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Discrete exterior calculus (DEC) is a framework for constructing discrete versions of exterior differential calculus objects, and is widely used in computer graphics, computational topology, and discretizations of the Hodge-Laplace operator…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-01 Erick Schulz , Gantumur Tsogtgerel

We present a local formulation for 2D Discrete Exterior Calculus (DEC) similar to that of the Finite Element Method (FEM), which allows a natural treatment of material heterogeneity (element by element). It also allows us to deduce, in a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-12-31 Humberto Esqueda , Rafael Herrera , Salvador Botello , Carlos Valero

We show that the Discrete Exterior Calculus (DEC) method can be cast as the earlier box method for the Poisson problem in the plane. Consequently, error estimates are established, proving that the DEC method is comparable to the Finite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-07-17 Ruben Carrillo , Miguel Angel Moreles , Rafael Herrera

Discrete exterior calculus (DEC) is a structure-preserving numerical framework for partial differential equations solution, particularly suitable for simplicial meshes. A longstanding and widespread assumption has been that DEC requires…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-02-14 Mamdouh S. Mohamed , Anil N. Hirani , Ravi Samtaney

The discrete exterior calculus (DEC) defines a family of discretized differential operators which preserve certain desirable properties from the exterior calculus. We formulate and solve the porous convection equations in the DEC via the…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Luke Morris , George Rauta , Kevin Carlson , James Fairbanks

Discrete exterior calculus (DEC) offers a coordinate-free discretization of exterior calculus especially suited for computations on curved spaces. In this work, we present an extended version of DEC on surface meshes formed by general…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-30 Lenka Ptackova , Luiz Velho

We provide a framework for interpreting Discrete Exterior Calculus (DEC) numerical schemes in terms of Finite Element Exterior Calculus (FEEC). We demonstrate the equivalence of cochains on primal and dual meshes with Whitney and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-04 Johnny Guzmán , Pratyush Potu

We derive a numerical method for Darcy flow, hence also for Poisson's equation in mixed (first order) form, based on discrete exterior calculus (DEC). Exterior calculus is a generalization of vector calculus to smooth manifolds and DEC is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2011-09-01 Anil N. Hirani , Kalyana B. Nakshatrala , Jehanzeb H. Chaudhry

Computational modeling is a key resource to gather insight into physical systems in modern scientific research and engineering. While access to large amount of data has fueled the use of Machine Learning (ML) to recover physical models from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Simone Manti , Alessandro Lucantonio

In this paper, we perform a numerical analysis in frequency domain for various electromagnetic problems based on discrete exterior calculus (DEC) with an arbitrary 2-D triangular or 3-D tetrahedral mesh. We formulate the governing equations…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-10-11 Shu Chen , Weng Cho Chew

We consider a numerical approach for the incompressible surface Navier-Stokes equation. The approach is based on the covariant form and uses discrete exterior calculus (DEC) in space and a semi-implicit discretization in time. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-11-26 Ingo Nitschke , Sebastian Reuther , Axel Voigt

A short proof of convergence for the discretization of the Hodge-Dirac operator in the framework of discrete exterior calculus (DEC) is provided using the techniques established in [Johnny Guzm\'an and Pratyush Potu, A Framework for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-01 Radovan Dabetić , Ralf Hiptmair

We prove convergence and stability of the discrete exterior calculus (DEC) solutions for the Hodge-Laplace problems in two dimensions for families of meshes that are non-degenerate Delaunay and shape regular. We do this by relating the DEC…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Chengbin Zhu , Snorre H. Christiansen , Kaibo Hu , Anil N. Hirani

This work is thought as an operative guide to discrete exterior calculus (DEC), but at the same time with a rigorous exposition. We present a version of (DEC) on cubic cell, defining it for discrete manifolds. An example of how it works, it…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Leonardo De Carlo

A formulation of elliptic boundary value problems is used to develop the first discrete exterior calculus (DEC) library for massively parallel computations with 3D domains. This can be used for steady-state analysis of any physical process…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Pieter D. Boom , Ashley Seepujak , Odysseas Kosmas , Lee Margetts , Andrey Jivkov

The simulation of fluid flow problems, specifically incompressible flows governed by the Navier-Stokes equations (NSE), holds fundamental significance in a range of scientific and engineering applications. Traditional numerical methods…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-09-10 Abdullah Abukhwejah , Pankaj Jagad , Ravi Samtaney , Peter Schmid

TRiSK-type numerical schemes are widely used in both atmospheric and oceanic dynamical cores, due to their discrete analogues of important properties such as energy conservation and steady geostrophic modes. In this work, we show that these…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-17 Christopher Eldred , Werner Bauer

Finite Element Exterior Calculus (FEEC) was developed by Arnold, Falk, Winther and others over the last decade to exploit the observation that mixed variational problems can be posed on a Hilbert complex, and Galerkin-type mixed methods can…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-12-04 Michael Holst , Yuwen Li , Adam Mihalik , Ryan Szypowski

This article introduces a new and general construction of discrete Hodge operator in the context of Discrete Exterior Calculus (DEC). This discrete Hodge operator enables to circumvent the well-centeredness limitation on the mesh with the…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Rama Ayoub , Aziz Hamdouni , Dina Razafindralandy

A conservative discretization of incompressible Navier-Stokes equations is developed based on discrete exterior calculus (DEC). A distinguishing feature of our method is the use of an algebraic discretization of the interior product…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-04-12 Mamdouh S. Mohamed , Anil N. Hirani , Ravi Samtaney
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