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We introduce new manifold-based splines that are able to exactly reproduce B-splines on unstructured surface meshes. Such splines can be used in isogeometric analysis (IGA) to represent smooth surfaces of arbitrary topology. Since prevalent…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-01-31 Qiaoling Zhang , Thomas Takacs , Fehmi Cirak

We discuss the ill conditioning of the matrix for the discretised Poisson equation in the small aspect ratio limit, and motivate this problem in the context of nonhydrostatic ocean modelling. Efficient iterative solvers for the Poisson…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-05-14 S. C. Kramer , C. J. Cotter , C. C. Pain

G-splines are a generalization of B-splines that deals with extraordinary points by imposing G^1 constraints across their spoke edges, thus obtaining a continuous tangent plane throughout the surface. Using the isoparametric concept and the…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Zuowei Wen , Md. Sadman Faruque , Xin Li , Xiaodong Wei , Hugo Casquero

In this paper, we develop the auxiliary space preconditioners for solving the linear system arising from the virtual element methods discretization on polytopal meshes for the second order elliptic equations. The preconditioners are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-12-12 Yunrong Zhu

Strongly motivated from use in various fields including machine learning, the methodology of sparse optimization has been developed intensively so far. Especially, the recent advance of algorithms for solving problems with nonsmooth…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-21 Jan Harold Alcantara , Chieu Thanh Nguyen , Takayuki Okuno , Akiko Takeda , Jein-Shan Chen

We propose a two-level iterative scheme for solving general sparse linear systems. The proposed scheme consists of a sparse preconditioner that increases the skew-symmetric part and makes the main diagonal of the coefficient matrix as close…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-09-16 Murat Manguoglu , Volker Mehrmann

Immersed finite element methods provide a convenient analysis framework for problems involving geometrically complex domains, such as those found in topology optimization and microstructures for engineered materials. However, their…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-30 Nils Wunsch , Keenan Doble , Mathias R. Schmidt , Lise Noël , John A. Evans , Kurt Maute

We exploit level set topology optimization to find the optimal material distribution for metamaterial-based heat manipulators. The level set function, geometry, and solution field are parameterized using the non-uniform rational B-spline…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Chintan Jansari , Stéphane P. A. Bordas , Elena Atroshchenko

Adaptive mesh refinement is a key component of efficient unstructured space-time finite element methods. Underlying any adaptive mesh refinement scheme is, of course, a method for local refinement of simplices. However, simplex bisection…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-08-16 David Lenz

Solving linear systems is often the computational bottleneck in real-life problems. Iterative solvers are the only option due to the complexity of direct algorithms or because the system matrix is not explicitly known. Here, we develop a…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Joris Tavernier , Jaak Simm , Karl Meerbergen , Yves Moreau

This paper proposes an isogeometric boundary element method (IGBEM) to solve the electromagnetic scattering problems for three-dimensional doubly-periodic multi-layered structures. The main concerns are the constructions of (i) an open…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-10-28 Toru Takahashi , Tetsuro Hirai , Hiroshi Isakari , Toshiro Matsumoto

We study bilevel optimization with a fixed polyhedral lower feasible set. Such problems are challenging for two reasons: active-set changes can make the upper objective nonsmooth, and existing hypergradient methods typically require…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-13 Tenglong Hong , Paul Grigas

Subdivision surfaces are proven to be a powerful tool in geometric modeling and computer graphics, due to the great flexibility they offer in capturing irregular topologies. This paper discusses the robust and efficient implementation of an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-03-13 Bert Jüttler , Angelos Mantzaflaris , Ricardo Perl , Martin Rumpf

In this paper we propose a local projector for truncated hierarchical B-splines (THB-splines). The local THB-spline projector is an adaptation of the B\'ezier projector proposed by Thomas et al. (Comput Methods Appl Mech Eng 284, 2015) for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-17 Kevin Dijkstra , Deepesh Toshniwal

This paper is concerned with the construction of graded meshes for approximating so-called singular solutions of elliptic boundary value problems by means of multipatch discontinuous Galerkin Isogeometric Analysis schemes. Such solutions…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-12-03 Ulrich Langer , Angelos Mantzaflaris , Stephen E. Moore , Ioannis Toulopoulos

In the past decade, a combination of unfitted finite elements (or XFEM) with the Nitsche method has become a popular discretization method for elliptic interface problems. This development started with the introduction and analysis of this…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-08-14 Christoph Lehrenfeld , Arnold Reusken

In this paper we develop the isogeometric B\'ezier dual mortar method. It is based on B\'ezier extraction and projection and is applicable to any spline space which can be represented in B\'ezier form (i.e., NURBS, T-splines, LR-splines,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-03-14 Z. Zou , M. A. Scott , M. J. Borden , D. C. Thomas , W. Dornisch , E. Brivadis

The P-splines of Eilers and Marx (1996) combine a B-spline basis with a discrete quadratic penalty on the basis coefficients, to produce a reduced rank spline like smoother. P-splines have three properties that make them very popular as…

Computation · Statistics 2016-05-10 Simon N. Wood

In the discretization of differential problems on complex geometrical domains, discretization methods based on polygonal and polyhedral elements are powerful tools. Adaptive mesh refinement for such kind of problems is very useful as well…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-12-12 Stefano Berrone , Andrea Borio , Alessandro D'Auria

In this paper, we develop multigrid solvers for the biharmonic problem in the framework of isogeometric analysis (IgA). In this framework, one typically sets up B-splines on the unit square or cube and transforms them to the domain of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-06-18 Jarle Sogn , Stefan Takacs