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Optimizing k-space sampling trajectories is a promising yet challenging topic for fast magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). This work proposes to optimize a reconstruction method and sampling trajectories jointly concerning image…

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This paper deals with a kind of design of a ruled surface. It combines concepts from the fields of computer aided geometric design and kinematics. A dual unit spherical B\'ezier-like curve on the dual unit sphere (DUS) is obtained with…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Ferhat Taş

This study proposes a new way to manufacture large lightweight aspherics for space telescopes using Stress Mirror Polishing (SMP). This technique is well known to allow reaching high quality optical surfaces in a minimum time period, thanks…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-21 Sabri Lemared , Marc Ferrari , Christian Du Jeu , Thibault Dufour , Nathalie Soulier , Emmanuel Hugot

Accurate numerical simulation of fault and fracture mechanics is critical for the performance and safety assessment of many subsurface systems. The discretized representation of discontinuity surfaces and the robust simulation of their…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-20 Daniele Moretto , Andrea Franceschini , Massimiliano Ferronato

This paper presents an approach to enhance volume conservation in the immersed boundary (IB) method by using regularized delta functions derived from composite B-splines. The conventional IB method, while effective for fluid-structure…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-14 Cole Gruninger , Boyce E. Griffith

We consider shape and topology optimization for fluids which are governed by the Navier--Stokes equations. Shapes are modelled with the help of a phase field approach and the solid body is relaxed to be a porous medium. The phase field…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-04-27 Harald Garcke , Claudia Hecht , Michael Hinze , Christian Kahle , Kei Fong Lam

We integrate smoothing B-splines into a standard differentiable vector graphics (DiffVG) pipeline through linear mapping, and show how this can be used to generate smooth and arbitrarily long paths within image-based deep learning systems.…

Precision contouring control is crucial in industrial machining processes, particularly for applications such as laser and water jet cutting, where contouring accuracy directly determines product quality. This paper presents a novel control…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-14 Meng Yuan , Tianyou Chai

High-order implicit shock tracking (fitting) is a class of high-order, optimization-based numerical methods to approximate solutions of conservation laws with non-smooth features by aligning elements of the computational mesh with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-30 Charles J. Naudet , Matthew J. Zahr

Inspired by shape constrained estimation under general nonnegative derivative constraints, this paper considers the B-spline approximation of constrained functions and studies the asymptotic performance of the constrained B-spline…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2015-10-20 Teresa M. Lebair , Jinglai Shen

This paper approximates simulation models by B-splines with a penalty on high-order finite differences of the coefficients of adjacent B-splines. The penalty prevents overfitting. The simulation output is assumed to be nonnegative. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-06-19 Yu Xia , Farid Alizadeh

We describe a technique for bundled curve representations in parallel-coordinates plots and present a controlled user study evaluating their effectiveness. Replacing the traditional C^0 polygonal lines by C^1 continuous piecewise Bezier…

Graphics · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Julian Heinrich , Yuan Luo , Arthur E. Kirkpatrick , Hao Zhang , Daniel Weiskopf

The computational modeling of many engineering problems using the Finite Element method involves the modeling of two or more bodies that meet through an interface. The interface can be physical, as in multi-physics and contact problems, or…

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High-order finite element methods harbor the potential to deliver improved accuracy per degree of freedom versus low-order methods. Their success, however, hinges upon the use of a curvilinear mesh of not only sufficiently high accuracy but…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-17 Luke Engvall , John A. Evans

Patient-specific computational modeling of the tricuspid valve (TV) is vital for the clinical assessment of heart valve diseases. However, this process is hindered by limitations inherent in the medical image data, such as noise and…

A new density field representation technique called the Bezier skeleton explicit density (BSED) representation scheme for topology optimization of stretchable metamaterials under finite deformation is proposed for the first time. The…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2020-06-24 Hao Deng , Shawn Hinnebusch , Albert C. To

In this paper, we introduce the hierarchical B-spline complex of discrete differential forms for arbitrary spatial dimension. This complex may be applied to the adaptive isogeometric solution of problems arising in electromagnetics and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-08-15 John A. Evans , Michael A. Scott , Kendrick Shepherd , Derek Thomas , Rafael Vazquez

Spline functions have long been used in numerically solving differential equations. Recently it revives as isogeometric analysis, which uses NURBS for both parametrization and element functions. In this paper, we introduce some multivariate…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-06-27 Guohui Zhao

Based on spline manifolds we introduce and study a mathematical framework for analysis-suitable unstructured B-spline spaces. In this setting the parameter domain has a manifold structure, which allows for the definition of function spaces…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-07-31 Giancarlo Sangalli , Thomas Takacs , Rafael Vázquez