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We consider solving the surface Helmholtz equation on a smooth two dimensional surface embedded into a three dimensional space meshed with tetrahedra. The mesh does not respect the surface and thus the surface cuts through the elements. We…
We consider systems of nonlinear magnetostatics and quasistatics that typically arise in the modeling and simulation of electric machines. The nonlinear problems, eventually obtained after time discretization, are usually solved by…
Tensor completion and robust principal component analysis have been widely used in machine learning while the key problem relies on the minimization of a tensor rank that is very challenging. A common way to tackle this difficulty is to…
The Laplace-Beltrami problem on closed surfaces embedded in three dimensions arises in many areas of physics, including molecular dynamics (surface diffusion), electromagnetics (harmonic vector fields), and fluid dynamics (vesicle…
This paper introduces a class of approximate transparent boundary conditions for the solution of Helmholtz-type resonance and scattering problems on unbounded domains. The computational domain is assumed to be a polygon. A detailed…
This paper addresses the analysis and numerical assessment of a computational method for solving the Cahn--Hilliard equation defined on a surface. The proposed approach combines the stabilized trace finite element method for spatial…
We consider the surface Stokes equation with Lagrange multiplier and approach it numerically. Using a Taylor-Hood surface finite element method, along with an appropriate estimate for the additional Lagrange multiplier, we derive a new…
We analyze the approximation by mixed finite element methods of solutions of equations of the form $-\mbox{div\,} (a\nabla u) = g$, where the coefficient $a=a(x)$ can degenerate going to cero or infinity. First, we extend the classic error…
A recent paper of Arnold, Falk, and Winther [Bull AMS, 47 (2010)] showed that a large class of mixed finite element methods can be formulated naturally on Hilbert complexes, where using a Galerkin-like approach, one solves a variational…
We give here a simplified presentation of the lowest order Serendipity Virtual Element method, and show its use for the numerical solution of linear magneto-static problems in three dimensions. The method can be applied to very general…
Solving the Plateau problem means to find the surface with minimal area among all surfaces with a given boundary. Part of the problem actually consists of giving a suitable definition to the notions of 'surface', 'area' and 'boundary'. In…
In this paper, a symmetrized two-scale finite element method is proposed for a class of partial differential equations with symmetric solutions. With this method, the finite element approximation on a fine tensor product grid is reduced to…
This paper develops a fractional stochastic partial differential equation (SPDE) to model the evolution of a random tangent vector field on the unit sphere. The SPDE is governed by a fractional diffusion operator to model the L\'{e}vy-type…
The Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) of matrices is a widely used tool in scientific computing. In many applications of machine learning, data analysis, signal and image processing, the large datasets are structured into tensors, for…
Using parametrized curves (Section 1) or parametrized sheets (Section 3), and suitable metrics, we treat the jet bundle of order one as a semi-Riemann manifold. This point of view allows the description of solutions of DEs as pregeodesics…
A family of continuous piecewise linear finite elements for thin plate problems is presented. We use standard linear interpolation of the deflection field to reconstruct a discontinuous piecewise quadratic deflection field. This allows us…
We develop an essentially optimal numerical method for solving multiscale Maxwell wave equations in a domain $D\subset{\mathbb R}^d$. The problems depend on $n+1$ scales: one macroscopic scale and $n$ microscopic scales. Solving the…
If a finite element mesh contains concave elements, it is said to tangled. Tangled meshes can occur during mesh generation, mesh optimization, and large deformation simulations, and will lead to erroneous results during finite element…
An analogue of the total variation prior for the normal vector field along the boundary of piecewise flat shapes in 3D is introduced. A major class of examples are triangulated surfaces as they occur for instance in finite element…
We introduce a method-of-lines formulation of the closest point method, a numerical technique for solving partial differential equations (PDEs) defined on surfaces. This is an embedding method, which uses an implicit representation of the…