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We propose a new approach to solving bilevel optimization problems, intermediate between solving full-system optimality conditions with a Newton-type approach, and treating the inner problem as an implicit function. The overall idea is to…

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In this paper, we propose a novel gradient recovery method for elliptic interface problem using body-fitted mesh in two dimension. Due to the lack of regularity of solution at interface, standard gradient recovery methods fail to give…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-07-21 Hailong Guo , Xu Yang

A finite element method for elliptic problems with discontinuous coefficients is presented. The discontinuity is assumed to take place along a closed smooth curve. The proposed method allows to deal with meshes that are not adapted to the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2007-07-12 Gunther H. Peichl , Rachid Touzani

We introduce and analyze a lower envelope method (LEM) for the tracking of interfaces motion in multiphase problems. The main idea of the method is to define the phases as the regions where the lower envelope of a set of functions coincides…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-12-07 Antoine Laurain

The interfacial diffusion associated with finite volume method (FVM) discretizations of multiphase flows creates the need for an interface sharpening mechanism. Such solutions for structured quadrilateral grids are well documented, but…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-05 J. Marziale , J. Sun , D. Salac , J. Chen

This paper presents a modified iterative approach to solve the variational inequality problem using the double inertial technique in the context of a real Hilbert space. Our iterative technique involves a projection onto a generalized…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-19 Watanjeet Singh , Sumit Chandok

We present and analyze a penalization method wich extends the the method of [1] to the case of a rigid body moving freely in an incompressible fluid. The fluid-solid system is viewed as a single variable density flow with an interface…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-01-15 Claire Bost , Georges-Henri Cottet , Emmanuel Maitre

Color image segmentation is a crucial step in many computer vision and pattern recognition applications. This article introduces an adaptive and unsupervised clustering approach based on Voronoi regions, which can be applied to solve the…

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Accurate numerical modeling of surface tension has been a challenging aspect of multiphase flow simulations. The integral formulation for modeling surface tension forces is known to be consistent and conservative, and to be a natural choice…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-11-07 Mandeep Saini , Vatsal Sanjay , Youssef Saade , Detlef Lohse , Stephane Popinet

We present a particle method for estimating the curvature of interfaces in volume-of-fluid simulations of multiphase flows. The method is well suited for under-resolved interfaces, and it is shown to be more accurate than the parabolic…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-01-23 Petr Karnakov , Sergey Litvinov , Petros Koumoutsakos

Multiphase flows are commonly found in chemical engineering processes such as distillation columns, bubble columns, fluidized beds and heat exchangers. The physical boundaries of domains in numerical simulations of multiphase flows are…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-04-21 Tanyakarn Treeratanaphitak , Nasser Mohieddin Abukhdeir

For interface tracking of an arbitrary number of materials in two dimensions, we propose a multiphase cubic MARS method that (a) represents the topology and geometry of the interface via graphs, cycles, and cubic splines, (b) applies to any…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-06 Yan Tan , Yixiao Qian , Zhiqi Li , Qinghai Zhang

The locally modified finite element method, which is introduced in [Frei, Richter: SINUM 52(2014), p. 2315-2334], is a simple fitted finite element method that is able to resolve weak discontinuities in interface problems. The method is…

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We introduce a nonconforming virtual element method for the Poisson equation on domains with curved boundary and internal interfaces. We prove arbitrary order optimal convergence in the energy and $L^2$ norms, and validate the theoretical…

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This paper is concerned with a space-time adaptive numerical method for instationary porous media flows with nonlinear interaction between porosity and pressure, with focus on problems with discontinuous initial porosities. A convergent…

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We introduce a new class of unfitted finite element methods with high order accurate numerical integration over curved surfaces and volumes which are only implicitly defined by level set functions. An unfitted finite element method which is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-12-10 Christoph Lehrenfeld

In this paper we construct conforming Virtual Element approximations on domains with curved boundary and/or internal curved interfaces, both in two and three dimensions. Our approach allows to impose both Dirichlet and Neumann…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-30 Daniele Prada , Franco Brezzi , L. Donatella Marini

Mobile robots operating indoors must be prepared to navigate challenging scenes that contain transparent surfaces. This paper proposes a novel method for the fusion of acoustic and visual sensing modalities through implicit neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Advaith V. Sethuraman , Onur Bagoren , Harikrishnan Seetharaman , Dalton Richardson , Joseph Taylor , Katherine A. Skinner

Accurate modeling of moving boundaries and interfaces is a difficulty present in many situations of computational mechanics. We use the eXtreme Mesh deformation approach (X-Mesh) to simulate the interaction between two immiscible flows…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-02-02 Antoine Quiriny , Jonathan Lambrechts , Nicolas Moës , Jean-François Remacle

Newton's method may exhibit slower convergence than vanilla Gradient Descent in its initial phase on strongly convex problems. Classical Newton-type multilevel methods mitigate this but, like Gradient Descent, achieve only linear…

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