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This paper investigates an elliptic interface problem with discontinuous diffusion coefficients on unfitted meshes, employing the CutFEM method. The main contribution is the a posteriori error analysis based on equilibrated fluxes belonging…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Daniela Capatina , Aimene Gouasmi

Active Flux (AF) is a modified Finite Volume method that evolves additional Degrees of Freedom (DoF) located on the cell interfaces to compute high-order approximations to the numerical fluxes through the respective interface. We present an…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-12-01 G. Grünwald , L. Hensel , M. Deisenhofer , S. Lautenbach , K. Kormann , R. Grauer

Generating intelligent robot behavior in contact-rich settings is a research problem where zeroth-order methods currently prevail. Developing methods that make use of first/second order information about rigid-body dynamics in the presence…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Onur Beker , Andreas René Geist , Anselm Paulus , Georg Martius

We present a novel approach for the reconstruction of dynamic geometric shapes using a single hand-held consumer-grade RGB-D sensor at real-time rates. Our method does not require a pre-defined shape template to start with and builds up the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-02 Matthias Innmann , Michael Zollhöfer , Matthias Nießner , Christian Theobalt , Marc Stamminger

The moment-of-fluid (MOF) method is an extension of the volume-of-fluid method with piecewise linear interface construction (VOF-PLIC). By minimizing the least square error of the centroid of the cutting polyhedron, the MOF method…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-08-06 Zhouteng Ye , Mark Sussman , Yi Zhan , Xizeng Zhao

In this paper, we propose a simple and accurate numerical method for capturing moving interfaces on fixed Eulerian grids by coupling the Tangent of Hyperbola Interface Capturing (THINC) method and Level Set (LS) method. The innovative and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-08-01 Longgen Qian , Yanhong Wei , Feng Xiao

A new PLIC (piecewise linear interface calculation)-type VOF (volume of fluid) method, called APPLIC (approximated PLIC) method, is presented. Although the PLIC method is one of the most accurate VOF methods, the three-dimensional algorithm…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-05-27 Akio Kawano

This work outlines a new three-dimensional diffuse interface finite volume method for the simulation of multiple solid and fluid components featuring large deformations, sliding and void opening. This is achieved by extending an existing…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-06-11 Tim Wallis , Philip T. Barton , Nikolaos Nikiforakis

In this study, we propose a class of total variation diminishing (TVD) schemes for solving pseudo-monotone variational inequality arises in elasto-hydrodynamic lubrication point contact problem. A limiter based stable hybrid line splittings…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-07-17 Peeyush Singh

Since viscoelastic two-phase flows arise in various industrial and natural processes, developing accurate and efficient software for their detailed numerical simulation is a highly relevant and challenging research task. We present a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-01-08 Matthias Niethammer , Muhammad Hassan Asghar , Tomislav Maric , Dieter Bothe

In this paper, we study the stability and convergence of a decoupled and linearized mixed finite element method (FEM) for incompressible miscible displacement in a porous media whose permeability and porosity are discontinuous across some…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-06-18 Buyang Li , Hongxing Rui , Chaoxia Yang

The emergence of visual foundation models has revolutionized visual odometry~(VO) and SLAM, enabling pose estimation and dense reconstruction within a single feed-forward network. However, unlike traditional pipelines that leverage keyframe…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Weichen Dai , Wenhan Su , Da Kong , Yuhang Ming , Wanzeng Kong

Monocular Odometry systems can be broadly categorized as being either Direct, Indirect, or a hybrid of both. While Indirect systems process an alternative image representation to compute geometric residuals, Direct methods process the image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Georges Younes , Daniel Asmar , John Zelek

Visual odometry is important for plenty of applications such as autonomous vehicles, and robot navigation. It is challenging to conduct visual odometry in textureless scenes or environments with sudden illumination changes where popular…

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We introduce a PDE-based node-to-element contact formulation as an alternative to classical, purely geometrical formulations. It is challenging to devise solutions to nonsmooth contact problem with continuous gap using finite element…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-02-28 P. Areias , N. Sukumar , J. Ambrósio

Unsigned Distance Fields (UDFs) provide a flexible representation for 3D shapes with arbitrary topology, including open and closed surfaces, orientable and non-orientable geometries, and non-manifold structures. While recent neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Jiayi Kong , Chen Zong , Junkai Deng , Xuhui Chen , Fei Hou , Shiqing Xin , Junhui Hou , Chen Qian , Ying He

Frequently, the design of physicochemical processes requires screening of large numbers of alternative designs with complex geometries. These geometries may result in conformal meshes which introduce stability issues, significant…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-01-19 E. J. Monte , J. Lowman , N. M. Abukhdeir

Interpolating scattered CFD datasets onto a uniform Cartesian grid can distort the true geometry, producing a convex-hull type envelope and activating nonphysical regions. This work presents a reconstruction framework that recovers…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-02-18 Mehran Sharifi , Gorka S. Larraona , Alejandro Rivas

A well-known drawback of the Volume-Of-Fluid (VOF) method is that the breakup of thin liquid films or filaments is mainly caused by numerical aspects rather than by physical ones. The rupture of thin films occurs when their thickness…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-07-25 Leonardo Chirco , Jacob Maarek , Stephane Popinet , Stephane Zaleski

A new method for interface tracking is presented. The interface representation, based on domain decomposition, provides the interface location explicitly, yet is Eulerian. This allows for well established finite difference methods on…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2013-02-20 Dag Lindbo , Anna-Karin Tornberg