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Surface wave tomography is essential for investigating the shear-wave velocity structure of the crust and upper mantle. The direct surface wave tomography method, DSurfTomo, has become one of the most widely adopted packages due to its…

Geophysics · Physics 2026-04-15 Shaohang Zhu , Junlun Li , Guoyi Chen , Hongjian Fang , Huajian Yao

Starting from the single graphics processing unit (GPU) version of the Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) code DualSPHysics, a multi-GPU SPH program is developed for free-surface flows. The approach is based on a spatial decomposition…

Computational Physics · Physics 2012-10-04 Daniel Valdez-Balderas , José M. Domínguez , Benedict D. Rogers , Alejandro J. C. Crespo

Triply periodic minimal surfaces (TPMS) are a class of metamaterials with a variety of applications and well-known primitive morphologies. We present a new method for discovering novel microscale TPMS structures with exceptional…

Honeycomb-like microstructures have been shown to exhibit local elastic buckling under compression, with three possible geometric buckling modes, or pattern transformations. The individual pattern transformations, and consequently also…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-04-14 O. Rokoš , M. M. Ameen , R. H. J. Peerlings , M. G. D. Geers

We present the results from a two-day study in which we discussed various implementations of Smooth Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH), one of the leading methods used across a variety of areas of large-scale astrophysical simulations. In…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Piet Hut , Lars Hernquist , George Lake , Jun Makino , Steve McMillan , Thomas Sterling

Elastomeric mechanical metamaterials exhibit unconventional behaviour, emerging from their microstructures often deforming in a highly nonlinear and unstable manner. Such microstructural pattern transformations lead to non-local behaviour…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-02-18 S. O. Sperling , T. Guo , R. H. J. Peerlings , V. G. Kouznetsova , M. G. D. Geers , O. Rokoš

When a liquid droplet is located above a super-hydrophobic surface, it only barely touches the solid portion of the surface, and therefore slides very easily on it. More generally, super-hydrophobic surfaces have been shown to lead to…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2010-04-09 Anthony M. J. Davis , Eric Lauga

This paper describes a novel approach to neighbour-finding in Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) simulations with large dynamic range in smoothing length. This approach is based on hierarchical cell decompositions, sorted interactions,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-09-17 Pedro Gonnet , Matthieu Schaller , Tom Theuns , Aidan B. G. Chalk

Hyperparameter optimization (HPO) plays a central role in the automated machine learning (AutoML). It is a challenging task as the response surfaces of hyperparameters are generally unknown, hence essentially a global optimization problem.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Zebin Yang , Aijun Zhang

The conflict between stiffness and toughness is a fundamental problem in engineering materials design. However, the systematic discovery of microstructured composites with optimal stiffness-toughness trade-offs has never been demonstrated,…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-01-05 Beichen Li , Bolei Deng , Wan Shou , Tae-Hyun Oh , Yuanming Hu , Yiyue Luo , Liang Shi , Wojciech Matusik

There is a huge interest in developing super-repellent surfaces for anti-fouling and heat transfer applications. To characterize the wetting properties of such surfaces, the most common approach is to place a millimetric-sized droplet and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-02-19 Dan Daniel , Chee Leng Lay , Anqi Sng , Corryl Jing Jun Lee , Darren Chi Jin Neo , Xing Yi Ling , Nikodem Tomczak

Surface parameterizations have been widely used in computer graphics and geometry processing. In particular, as simply-connected open surfaces are conformally equivalent to the unit disk, it is desirable to compute the disk conformal…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-02-10 Pui Tung Choi , Lok Ming Lui

Design-space dimensionality reduction is essential to mitigate the cost of high-fidelity simulation-based optimization, especially when dealing with high-dimensional geometric parameterizations. Traditional linear techniques, such as…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-23 Andrea Serani , Giorgio Palma , Jeroen Wackers , Domenico Quagliarella , Stefano Gaggero , Matteo Diez

With the increasing use of the internet and the ease of exchange of multimedia content, the protection of ownership rights has become a significant concern. Watermarking is an efficient means for this purpose. In many applications,…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2020-05-13 Mohsen Hajabdolahi , Nader Karimi , Shahram Shirani , Shadrokh Samavi

Particle tracking in large-scale numerical simulations of turbulent flows presents one of the major bottlenecks in parallel performance and scaling efficiency. Here, we describe a particle tracking algorithm for large-scale parallel…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-05-31 Cristian C. Lalescu , Bérenger Bramas , Markus Rampp , Michael Wilczek

Point containment queries on trimmed surfaces are fundamental to CAD modeling, solid geometry processing, and surface tessellation. Existing approaches such as ray casting and generalized winding numbers often face limitations in robustness…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Anchang Bao , Enya Shen , Jianmin Wang

Despite substantial technological advancements, the comprehensive mapping of surface water, particularly smaller bodies (<1ha), continues to be a challenge due to a lack of robust, scalable methods. Standard methods require either training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Hunsoo Song , Jinha Jung

We consider theoretically the Cassie-Baxter and Wenzel states describing the wetting contact angles for rough substrates. More precisely, we consider different types of periodic geometries such as square protrusions and disks in 2D, grooves…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-08-20 Joël De Coninck , François Dunlop , Thierry Huillet

Surface parametrization is a crucial part in various fields, having applications in computer graphic, medical imaging, scientific computing and computational engineering. The majority of surface parametrization approaches are performed on…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Ka Ho Lai , Lok Ming Lui