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Mimetic methods discretize divergence by restricting the Gauss theorem to mesh cells. Because point clouds lack such geometric entities, construction of a compatible meshfree divergence remains a challenge. In this work, we define an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-03-18 Nathaniel Trask , Pavel Bochev , Mauro Perego

We investigate the connections between several recent methods for the discretization of anisotropic heterogeneous diffusion operators on general grids. We prove that the Mimetic Finite Difference scheme, the Hybrid Finite Volume scheme and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2010-11-01 Jerome Droniou , Robert Eymard , Thierry Gallouët , Raphaele Herbin

In this paper, we propose a multiscale empirical interpolation method for solving nonlinear multiscale partial differential equations. The proposed method combines empirical interpolation techniques and local multiscale methods, such as the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-07-02 Victor Calo , Yalchin Efendiev , Juan Galvis , Mehdi Ghommem

In this work, we extend the meshfree generalized multiscale exponential integration framework introduced in Nikiforov et al. (2025) to the simulation of three-dimensional advection--diffusion problems in heterogeneous and high-contrast…

In latent diffusion models (LDMs), denoising diffusion process efficiently takes place on latent space whose dimension is lower than that of pixel space. Decoder is typically used to transform the representation in latent space to that in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Seongmin Hong , Suh Yoon Jeon , Kyeonghyun Lee , Ernest K. Ryu , Se Young Chun

We propose a unified meshless method to solve classical and fractional PDE problems with $(-\Delta)^{\frac{\alpha}{2}}$ for $\alpha \in (0, 2]$. The classical ($\alpha = 2$) and fractional ($\alpha < 2$) Laplacians, one local and the other…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-02-02 Yixuan Wu , Yanzhi Zhang

We propose a parametric finite element method (PFEM) for efficiently solving the morphological evolution of solid-state dewetting of thin films on a flat rigid substrate in three dimensions (3D). The interface evolution of the dewetting…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-03-03 Quan Zhao , Wei Jiang , Weizhu Bao

The closest point method (Ruuth and Merriman, J. Comput. Phys. 227(3):1943-1961, [2008]) is an embedding method developed to solve a variety of partial differential equations (PDEs) on smooth surfaces, using a closest point representation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-20 A. Petras , L. Ling , C. Piret , S. J. Ruuth

We introduce a rigorous and simple method for analyzing metasurfaces, modeled as zero-thickness electromagnetic sheets, in Finite Difference (FD) techniques. The method consists in describing the spatial discontinuity induced by the…

Classical Physics · Physics 2017-01-31 Yousef Vahabzadeh , Karim Achouri , Christophe Caloz

The gradient discretisation method (GDM) is a generic framework designed recently, as a discretise in spatial space, to partial differential equations. This paper aims to use the GDM to establish a first general error estimate for numerical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-09-22 Yahya Alnashri

We analyze and test using Fourier extensions that minimize a Hilbert space norm for the purpose of solving partial differential equations (PDEs) on surfaces. In particular, we prove that the approach is arbitrarily high-order and also show…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-30 Daniel R. Venn , Steven J. Ruuth

Numerical solutions of partial differential equations (PDEs) on manifolds continues to generate a lot of interest among scientists in the natural and applied sciences. On the other hand, recent developments of 3D scanning and computer…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-01-08 E. O. Asante-Asamani , Lei Wang , Zeyun Yu

We provide a comprehensive overview of meshfree collocation methods for numerically approximating differential operators on continuously labeled unstructured point clouds. Meshfree collocation methods do not require a computational grid or…

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We present a new high order finite element method for the discretization of partial differential equations on stationary smooth surfaces which are implicitly described as the zero level of a level set function. The discretization is based…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-04-17 Jörg Grande , Christoph Lehrenfeld , Arnold Reusken

There are many numerical methods for solving partial different equations (PDEs) on manifolds such as classical implicit, finite difference, finite element, and isogeometric analysis methods which aim at improving the interoperability…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-11-17 Wenrui Hao , Jonathan D. Hauenstein , Margaret H. Regan , Tingting Tang

Unsigned Distance Functions (UDFs) can be used to represent non-watertight surfaces in a deep learning framework. However, UDFs tend to be brittle and difficult to learn, in part because the surface is located exactly where the UDF is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Hieu Le , Federico Stella , Benoit Guillard , Pascal Fua

This article introduces a general purpose framework and software to approximate partial differential equations (PDEs). The sparsity patterns of finite element discretized operators is identified automatically using the tools from…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-17 Kiefer Green , Harbir Antil

We present a simple algorithm for differentiable rendering of surfaces represented by Signed Distance Fields (SDF), which makes it easy to integrate rendering into gradient-based optimization pipelines. To tackle visibility-related…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Zichen Wang , Xi Deng , Ziyi Zhang , Wenzel Jakob , Steve Marschner

This paper presents a new curved layer volume decomposition method for multi-axis support-free printing of freeform solid parts. Given a solid model to be printed that is represented as a tetrahedral mesh, we first establish a geodesic…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-03-16 Yamin Li , Dong He , Xiangyu Wang , Kai Tang

Multiscale Finite Element Methods (MsFEMs) are now well-established finite element type approaches dedicated to multiscale problems. They first compute local, oscillatory, problem-dependent basis functions that generate a suitable…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-03 Rutger A. Biezemans , Claude Le Bris , Frédéric Legoll , Alexei Lozinski