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The Finite element method (FEM) has long served as the computational backbone for topology optimization (TO). However, for designing structures undergoing large deformations, conventional FEM-based TO often exhibits numerical instabilities…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Rahul Kumar Padhy , Aaditya Chandrasekhar , Krishnan Suresh

We develop a new meshfree geometric multilevel (MGM) method for solving linear systems that arise from discretizing elliptic PDEs on surfaces represented by point clouds. The method uses a Poisson disk sampling-type technique for coarsening…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-04-14 Grady B. Wright , Andrew M. Jones , Varun Shankar

Accurately handling contact with friction remains a core bottleneck for Material Point Method (MPM), from reliable contact point detection to enforcing frictional contact laws (non-penetration, Coulomb friction, and maximum dissipation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Etienne Ménager , Justin Carpentier

The recently proposed Broximal Point Method (BPM) [Gruntkowska et al., 2025] offers an idealized optimization framework based on iteratively minimizing the objective function over norm balls centered at the current iterate. It enjoys…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-02 Kaja Gruntkowska , Peter Richtárik

Bayesian Model Mixing (BMM) is a statistical technique that can be used to combine models that are predictive in different input domains into a composite distribution that has improved predictive power over the entire input space. We…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-11-02 A. C. Semposki , R. J. Furnstahl , D. R. Phillips

This paper proposes a strategy to solve the problems of the conventional s-version of finite element method (SFEM) fundamentally. Because SFEM can reasonably model an analytical domain by superimposing meshes with different spatial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-09 Nozomi Magome , Naoki Morita , Shigeki Kaneko , Naoto Mitsume

This study focuses on solving the numerical challenges of imposing absorbing boundary conditions for dynamic simulations in the material point method (MPM). To attenuate elastic waves leaving the computational domain, the current work…

Geophysics · Physics 2025-01-24 Jun Kurima , Bodhinanda Chandra , Kenichi Soga

The integration of Symmetric Positive Definite (SPD) matrices into deep learning has historically relied on fixed algebraic Riemannian metrics. Analogous to hand-crafted features in classical machine learning, these static formulations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Tushar Das , Subrata Dutta , Sarmistha Neogy , Koushlendra Kumar Singh

Shallow landslides pose a significant threat to people and infrastructure. While often modeled based on limit equilibrium analysis, finite or discrete elements, continuum particle-based approaches like the Material Point Method (MPM) have…

Geophysics · Physics 2023-01-18 Louis Guillet , Lars Blatny , Bertil Trottet , Johan Gaume

This paper presents a novel stabilized mixed material point method (MPM) designed for the unified modeling of free-surface and seepage flow. The unified formulation integrates the Navier-Stokes equation with the Darcy-Brinkman-Forchheimer…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-30 Bodhinanda Chandra , Ryota Hashimoto , Ken Kamrin , Kenichi Soga

Mechanical metamaterials utilize geometry to achieve exceptional mechanical properties, including those not typically possible for traditional materials. To achieve these properties, it is necessary to identify the proper structures and…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-10-11 Jiakun Liu , Adam Taylor , Sage Fulco , Sumukh S. Pande , Kevin T. Turner

This research explored a novel explicit total Lagrangian Fragile Points Method (FPM) for finite deformation of hyperelastic materials. In contrast to mesh-based methods, where mesh distortion may pose numerical challenges, meshless methods…

Many scientific fields and applications require compact representations of multivariate functions. For this problem, decoupling methods are powerful techniques for representing the multivariate functions as a combination of linear…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-07 Joppe De Jonghe , Mariya Ishteva

In many applications, we need algorithms which can align partially overlapping point sets and are invariant to the corresponding transformations. In this work, a method possessing such properties is realized by minimizing the objective of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Wei Lian , Wangmeng Zuo

Approximate full mass matrix methods for the material point method, known as FMPM(k) of order k, can improve the calculation of grid velocities from grid momentum. It can be implemented in any MPM code by inserting a new calculation task…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-04-09 John A. Nairn

A new gradient-based particle sampling method, MPM-ParVI, based on material point method (MPM), is proposed for variational inference. MPM-ParVI simulates the deformation of a deformable body (e.g. a solid or fluid) under external effects…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Yongchao Huang

This work introduces B-spline Movement Primitives (BMPs), a new Movement Primitive (MP) variant that leverages B-splines for motion representation. B-splines are a well-known concept in motion planning due to their ability to generate…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Weiran Liao , Ge Li , Hongyi Zhou , Rudolf Lioutikov , Gerhard Neumann

A number of recent studies have focused on developing surgical simulation platforms to train machine learning (ML) agents or models with synthetic data for surgical assistance. While existing platforms excel at tasks such as rigid body…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Yafei Ou , Mahdi Tavakoli

Shock-physics numerical codes are essential tools for describing the short but extreme fragmentation stage of the hypervelocity impact process on asteroids. However, accurately representing complex interior structures, surfaces, and contact…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-16 Xiaoran Yan , Patrick Michel , Ruichen Ni , Yifei Jiao , Junfeng Li

A finite element method using B-splines is presented and compared with a conventional finite element method of Lagrangian type. The efficiency of both methods has been investigated at the example of a coupled non-linear system of Dirac…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 W. Poeschl