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For decades, the computational multiphase flow community has grappled with mass loss in the level set method. Numerous solutions have been proposed, from fixing the reinitialization step to combining the level set method with other…

We propose an implicit Discontinuous Galerkin (DG) discretization for incompressible two-phase flows using an artificial compressibility formulation. The conservative level set (CLS) method is employed in combination with a reinitialization…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-27 Giuseppe Orlando

We compute time-dependent solutions of the sharp-interface model of dendritic solidification in two dimensions by using a level set method. The steady-state results are in agreement with solvability theory. Solutions obtained from the level…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-31 Yung-Tae Kim , Nigel Goldenfeld , Jonathan Dantzig

Level-set methods for convex optimization are predicated on the idea that certain problems can be parameterized so that their solutions can be recovered as the limiting process of a root-finding procedure. This idea emerges time and again…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-05-19 Ron Estrin , Michael P. Friedlander

The conventional no-slip boundary condition leads to a non-integrable stress singularity at a moving contact line. This makes numerical simulations challenging, especially when capillary effects are essential for the dynamics of the flow.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-09-18 Hanna Holmgren , Gunilla Kreiss

The physics of electronic energy level alignment at interfaces formed between molecules and metals can in general be accurately captured by the \emph{ab initio} $GW$ approach. However, the computational cost of such $GW$ calculations for…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-06-27 Zhen-Fei Liu , Felipe H. da Jornada , Steven G. Louie , Jeffrey B. Neaton

This paper proposes a variational framework for multi-objective level set topology optimization. The approach interprets the level set function as a generalized coordinate of a fictitious material and derives its equation of motion from…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-25 Jan Oellerich , Takayuki Yamada

The immersed interface method (IIM) for fluid-structure interaction imposes discontinuities in the fluid stress along immersed boundaries that are generated by forces concentrated along those boundaries. For a viscous incompressible fluid,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Michael J. Facci , Qi Sun , Boyce E. Griffith

This paper presents a solver using the Level-Set method for incompressible two phase flows with surface tension. A one fluid approach is adopted where both phases share the same velocity and pressure field. The Level Set method has been…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-11-13 Paulin Ferro , Paul Landel , Carla Landrodie , Simon Guillot , Marc Pescheux

In this paper we describe a high-resolution transport formulation of the regional level-set approach for an improved prediction of the evolution of complex interface networks. The novelty of this method is twofold: (i) construction of local…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-05-30 Shucheng Pan , Xiangyu Hu , Nikolaus A. Adams

This paper presents a novel reaction-diffusion (RD) method for implicit active contours, which is completely free of the costly re-initialization procedure in level set evolution (LSE). A diffusion term is introduced into LSE, resulting in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-08-09 Kaihua Zhang , Lei Zhang , Huihui Song , David Zhang

We develop a new spatial semidiscrete multiscale method based upon the edge multiscale methods to solve semilinear parabolic problems with heterogeneous coefficients and smooth initial data. This method allows for a cheap spatial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-16 Leonardo A. Poveda , Shubin Fu , Guanglian Li , Eric Chung

We developed a sharp interface level-set approach for two-phase immiscible flow with moving contact lines. The Cox-Voinov model is used to describe the moving contact line. A piecewise linear interface method is used to construct the signed…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-10-26 Moataz O. Abu-Al-Saud , Cyprien Soulaine , Amir Riaz , Hamdi A. Tchelepi

The main goal of this paper is to present results of comparison study for the level set and direct Lagrangian methods for computing evolution of the Willmore flow of embedded planar curves. To perform such a study we construct new numerical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2007-10-30 Michal Benes , Karol Mikula , Tomas Oberhuber , Daniel Sevcovic

Land surface temperature (LST) retrieval from remote sensing data is pivotal for analyzing climate processes and surface energy budgets. However, LST retrieval is an ill-posed inverse problem, which becomes particularly severe when only a…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2026-03-18 Tian Xie , Menghui Jiang , Huanfeng Shen , Huifang Li , Chao Zeng , Jun Ma , Guanhao Zhang , Liangpei Zhang

Simulations of immiscible flows involving surface tension (ST) require a robust high-fidelity framework. State-of-the-art multi-phase models, such as the Conservative Level-Set (CLS) approach, rely on Eulerian representations of the fluids…

A novel coupled level-set lattice Boltzmann method on adaptive Cartesian grids for simulating liquid-gas multiphase flows is presented. The approach addresses the inherent challenges of accurately modeling multiphase systems characterized…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-12 Julian Vorspohl , Yuxing Peng , Matthias Meinke , Dominik Krug , Wolfgang Schröder

In this paper, we introduce a novel way to represent the interface for two-phase flows with phase change. We combine a level-set method with a Cartesian embedded boundary method and take advantage of both. This is part of an effort to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-12-28 A. Limare , S. Popinet , C. Josserand , Z. Xue , A. Ghigo

This paper presents a novel randomized algorithm for robust point cloud registration without correspondences. Most existing registration approaches require a set of putative correspondences obtained by extracting invariant descriptors.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-16 Huu Le , Thanh-Toan Do , Tuan Hoang , Ngai-Man Cheung

This paper is concerned with topology optimization based on a level set method using (doubly) nonlinear diffusion equations. Topology optimization using the level set method is called level set-based topology optimization, which is possible…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-22 Tomoyuki Oka , Takayuki Yamada