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The mesh flexibility offered by the virtual element method through the permission of arbitrary element geometries, and the seamless incorporation of `hanging' nodes, has made the method increasingly attractive in the context of adaptive…

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We consider hyperelastic problems and their numerical solution using a conforming finite element discretization and iterative linearization algorithms. For these problems, we present equilibrated, weakly symmetric, $H(\rm{div)}$-conforming…

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Spectral variability significantly impacts the accuracy and convergence of hyperspectral unmixing algorithms. Many methods address complex spectral variability; yet large-scale distortions to the scale of the observed pixel signatures due…

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We study the evolution of solidification microstructures using a phase-field model computed on an adaptive, finite element grid. We discuss the details of our algorithm and show that it greatly reduces the computational cost of solving the…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-31 Nikolas Provatas , Nigel Goldenfeld , Jonathan Dantzig

Anisotropic mesh adaptation has been successfully applied to the numerical solution of partial differential equations but little considered for variational problems. In this paper, we investigate the use of a global hierarchical basis error…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-03-17 Weizhang Huang , Lennard Kamenski , Xianping Li

The Poisson-Boltzmann equation is a widely used model to study the electrostatics in molecular solvation. Its numerical solution using a boundary integral formulation requires a mesh on the molecular surface only, yielding accurate…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-09-25 Vicente Ramm , Jehanzeb H. Chaudhry , Christopher D. Cooper

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

Micro- and mesostructures of multiphase materials obtained from tomography and image acquisition are an ever more important database for simulation analyses. Huge data sets for reconstructed 3d volumes typically as voxel grids call for…

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The paper develops a finite element method for partial differential equations posed on hypersurfaces in $\mathbb{R}^N$, $N=2,3$. The method uses traces of bulk finite element functions on a surface embedded in a volumetric domain. The bulk…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-19 Alexey Y. Chernyshenko , Maxim A. Olshanskii

Structured adaptive mesh refinement (AMR), commonly implemented via quadtrees and octrees, underpins a wide range of applications including databases, computer graphics, physics simulations, and machine learning. However, octrees enforce…

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A refined a priori error analysis of the lowest order (linear) Virtual Element Method (VEM) is developed for approximating a model two dimensional Poisson problem. A set of new geometric assumptions is proposed on shape regularity of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-25 Shuhao Cao , Long Chen

High-quality quadrilateral mesh generation is a fundamental challenge in computer graphics. Traditional optimization-based methods are often constrained by the topological quality of input meshes and suffer from severe efficiency…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Yuguang Chen , Xinhai Liu , Xiangyu Zhu , Yiling Zhu , Zhuo Chen , Dongyu Zhang , Chunchao Guo

Some methods based on simple regularizing geometric element transformations have heuristically been shown to give runtime efficient and quality effective smoothing algorithms for meshes. We describe the mathematical framework and a…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2013-07-09 Dimitris Vartziotis , Benjamin Himpel

In this paper we propose a method to generate suitably refined finite element meshes using neural networks. As a model problem we consider a linear elasticity problem on a planar domain (possibly with holes) having a polygonal boundary. We…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-16 Chiu Ling Chan , Felix Scholz , Thomas Takacs

We present a methodical procedure for topology optimization under uncertainty with multi-resolution finite element models. We use our framework in a bi-fidelity setting where a coarse and a fine mesh corresponding to low- and…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2019-04-08 Vahid Keshavarzzadeh , Robert M. Kirby , Akil Narayan

Harmonic decomposition of surfaces, such as spherical and spheroidal harmonics, is used to analyze morphology, reconstruct, and generate surface inclusions of particulate microstructures. However, obtaining high-quality meshes of…

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This paper proposes a methodology to estimate stress in the subsurface by a hybrid method combining finite element modeling and neural networks. This methodology exploits the idea of obtaining a multi-frequency solution in the numerical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-27 Xavier Garcia , Adrian Rodriguez-Herrera

Mesh simplification is the process of reducing the number of vertices, edges and triangles in a three-dimensional (3D) mesh while preserving the overall shape and salient features of the mesh. A popular strategy for this is edge collapse,…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Purva Kulkarni , Aravind Shankara Narayanan

Additive manufacturing methods together with topology optimization have enabled the creation of multiscale structures with controlled spatially-varying material microstructure. However, topology optimization or inverse design of such…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-08-28 Harikrishnan Vijayakumaran , Jonathan B. Russ , Glaucio H. Paulino , Miguel A. Bessa

In tree based adaptive mesh refinement, elements are partitioned between processes using a space filling curve. The curve establishes an ordering between all elements that derive from the same root element, the tree. When representing more…

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