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This paper presents a simple approach to low-thrust optimal-fuel and optimal-time transfer problems between two elliptic orbits using the Cartesian coordinates system. In this case, an orbit is described by its specific angular momentum and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-12-09 Hantian Zhang , Dong Eui Chang , Qingjie Cao

In fields ranging from computer vision to signal processing and statistics, increasing computational power allows a move from classical linear models to models that incorporate non-linear phenomena. This shift has created interest in…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2013-05-03 Stefan Sommer , François Lauze , Mads Nielsen

The purpose of this paper is twofold. An immediate practical use of the presented algorithm is its applicability to the parametric solution of underdetermined linear ordinary differential equations (ODEs) with coefficients that are…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2011-08-24 Thomas Wolf

The Riemannian manifold of curves with a Sobolev metric is an important and frequently studied model in the theory of shape spaces. Various numerical approaches have been proposed to compute geodesics, but so far elude a rigorous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-16 Sascha Beutler , Florine Hartwig , Martin Rumpf , Benedikt Wirth

The paper proves Liouville-type results for stable solutions of semilinear elliptic PDEs with convex nonlinearity, posed on the entire Euclidean space. Extensions to solutions which are stable outside a compact set are also presented.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2008-06-17 Louis Dupaigne , Alberto Farina

The tilt-over mode in a precessing triaxial ellipsoid is studied theoretically and numerically. Inviscid and viscous analytical models previously developed for the spheroidal geometry by Poincar\'e [Bull. Astr. 27, 321 (1910)] and Busse [J.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2011-02-15 David Cebron , Michael Le Bars , Patrice Meunier

A new numerical method for an inverse problem for an elliptic equation with unknown potential is proposed. In this problem the point source is running along a straight line and the source-dependent Dirichlet boundary condition is measured…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2008-09-24 Hua Shan , M. V. Klibanov , Jianzhong Su , Natee Pantong , Hanli Liu

Multiple solutions are common in various non-convex problems arising from industrial and scientific computing. Nonetheless, understanding the nontrivial solutions' qualitative properties seems limited, partially due to the lack of efficient…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-17 Yangyi Ye , Lin Li , Pengcheng Xie , Haijun Yu

In considering the mathematical problem of describing the geodesics on a torus or any other surface of revolution, there is a tremendous advantage in conceptual understanding that derives from taking the point of view of a physicist by…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-12-27 Robert T. Jantzen

The timelike geodesic equations resulting from the Kerr gravitational metric element are derived and solved exactly including the contribution from the cosmological constant. The geodesic equations are derived, by solving the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 G. V. Kraniotis

In this paper, we consider enumeration of geodesics on a polyhedron, where a geodesic means locally-shortest path between two points. Particularly, we consider the following preprocessing problem: given a point $s$ on a polyhedral surface…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Kazuma Tateiri

We present a higher-order finite volume method for solving elliptic PDEs with jump conditions on interfaces embedded in a 2D Cartesian grid. Second, fourth, and sixth order accuracy is demonstrated on a variety of tests including problems…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-09 Will Thacher , Hans Johansen , Daniel Martin

Several physical problems such as the `twin paradox' in curved spacetimes have purely geometrical nature and may be reduced to studying properties of bundles of timelike geodesics. The paper is a general introduction to systematic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-07-10 Leszek M. Sokołowski , Zdzisław A. Golda

The paper introduces a geometrically unfitted finite element method for the numerical solution of the tangential Navier--Stokes equations posed on a passively evolving smooth closed surface embedded in $\mathbb{R}^3$. The discrete…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-16 Maxim A. Olshanskii , Arnold Reusken , Paul Schwering

We develop a numerical strategy to solve multi-dimensional Poisson equations on dynamically adapted grids for evolutionary problems disclosing propagating fronts. The method is an extension of the multiresolution finite volume scheme used…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-12 Max Duarte , Zdenek Bonaventura , Marc Massot , Anne Bourdon

We introduce new methods for the numerical solution of general Hamiltonian boundary value problems. The main feature of the new formulae is to produce numerical solutions along which the energy is precisely conserved, as is the case with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-11-26 P. Amodio , L. Brugnano , F. Iavernaro

The Perspective-Three-Point Problem (P3P) is solved by first focusing on determining the directions of the lines through pairs of control points, relative to the camera, rather than the distances from the camera to the control points. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Michael Q. Rieck

Curvilinear coordinate systems distinct from the rectangular Cartesian coordinate system are particularly valuable in the field calculations as they facilitate the expression of boundary conditions of differential equations in a reasonably…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-05-16 Pavel Strunz

We describe, in an intrinsic way and using the global chart provided by Ito's parallel transport, a generalisation of the notion of geodesic (as critical path of an energy functional) to diffusion processes on Riemannian manifolds. These…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-07-13 Ana Bela Cruzeiro , Jean-Claude Zambrini

We develop a boundary integral equation solver for elliptic partial differential equations on complex \threed geometries. Our method is efficient, high-order accurate and robustly handles complex geometries. A key component is our singular…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-07-07 Matthew J. Morse , Abtin Rahimian , Denis Zorin