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This paper presents a topology optimization approach for the surface flows on variable design domains. Via this approach, the matching between the pattern of a surface flow and the 2-manifold used to define the pattern can be optimized,…

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Converting hand-drawn sketches into structured 3D geometries remains challenging due to the difficulty of representing non-Euclidean surfaces and maintaining topological consistency. Existing generative models such as GANs, NeRFs, and…

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High-quality quadrilateral mesh generation is a fundamental challenge in computer graphics. Traditional optimization-based methods are often constrained by the topological quality of input meshes and suffer from severe efficiency…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Yuguang Chen , Xinhai Liu , Xiangyu Zhu , Yiling Zhu , Zhuo Chen , Dongyu Zhang , Chunchao Guo

Porous structures are widely used in various industries because of their excellent properties. Porous surfaces have no thickness and should be thickened to sheet structures for further fabrication. However, conventional methods for…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-12-21 Jiacong Yan , Hongwei Lin

In this paper, we proposed and validated a fully automatic pipeline for hippocampal surface generation via 3D U-net coupled with active shape modeling (ASM). Principally, the proposed pipeline consisted of three steps. In the beginning, for…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Pinyuan Zhong , Yue Zhang , Xiaoying Tang

We present a new meshing algorithm called guided and augmented meshing, GAMesh, which uses a mesh prior to generate a surface for the output points of a point network. By projecting the output points onto this prior and simplifying the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-21 Nitin Agarwal , M Gopi

Mesh generation plays a crucial role in scientific computing. Traditional mesh generation methods, such as TFI and PDE-based methods, often struggle to achieve a balance between efficiency and mesh quality. To address this challenge,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-23 Jing Xiao , Xinhai Chen , Qingling Wang , Jie Liu

We introduce a novel approach to automatic unstructured mesh generation using machine learning to predict an optimal finite element mesh for a previously unseen problem. The framework that we have developed is based around training an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-16 Zheyan Zhang , Yongxing Wang , Peter K. Jimack , He Wang

We propose a novel method to generate a small set of ruled surfaces that do not collide with the input shape for linear hot-wire rough machining. Central to our technique is a new observation: the ruled surfaces constructed by vertical…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Zheng Zhang , Kang Wu , Yi-Fei Li , Xu Liu , Xiang Wang , Ligang Liu , Xiao-Ming Fu

Triangulations are an ubiquitous input for the finite element community. However, most raw triangulations obtained by imaging techniques are unsuitable as-is for finite element analysis. In this paper, we give a robust pipeline for handling…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Pierre-Alexandre Beaufort , Christophe Geuzaine , Jean-François Remacle

We present two novel generative geometric deep learning frameworks, termed Flow Matching PointNet and Diffusion PointNet, for predicting fluid flow variables on irregular geometries by incorporating PointNet into flow matching and diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Ali Kashefi

The emergence and understanding of new design paradigms that exploit flow induced mechanical instabilities for propulsion or energy harvesting demands robust and accurate flow structure interaction numerical models. In this context, we…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-05-22 Caroline Bernier , Mattia Gazzola , Renaud Ronsse , Philippe Chatelain

We present a deep convolutional decoder architecture that can generate volumetric 3D outputs in a compute- and memory-efficient manner by using an octree representation. The network learns to predict both the structure of the octree, and…

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We construct algorithms and topological invariants that allow us to distinguish the topological type of a surface, as well as functions and vector fields for their topological equivalence. In the first part (arXiv:2501.15657), we discused…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-02-17 Alexandr Prishlyak

We present an approach for robust high-order mesh generation specially tailored to streamlined bodies. The method is based on a semi-sructured approach which combines the high quality of structured meshes in the near-field with the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Julian Marcon , Joaquim Peiró , David Moxey , Nico Bergemann , Henry Bucklow , Mark Gammon

We introduce a novel offset meshing approach that can robustly handle a 3D surface mesh with an arbitrary geometry and topology configurations, while nicely capturing the sharp features on the original input for both inward and outward…

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We propose a novel approach for deformation-aware neural networks that learn the weighting and synthesis of dense volumetric deformation fields. Our method specifically targets the space-time representation of physical surfaces from liquid…

Graphics · Computer Science 2019-02-21 Lukas Prantl , Boris Bonev , Nils Thuerey

This paper introduces a novel framework called DTNet for 3D mesh reconstruction and generation via Disentangled Topology. Beyond previous works, we learn a topology-aware neural template specific to each input then deform the template to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-13 Ka-Hei Hui , Ruihui Li , Jingyu Hu , Chi-Wing Fu

We show that any polyhedron forming a topological ball with an even number of quadrilateral sides can be partitioned into O(n) topological cubes, meeting face to face. The result generalizes to non-simply-connected polyhedra satisfying an…

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