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In this work, we extend the solid harmonics derivation, which was used by Ackroyd et al to derive the steady-state SP$_N$ equations, to transient problems. The derivation expands the angular flux in ordinary surface harmonics but uses…

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We investigate numerically in spherical geometry the interaction of stratification with precession. Both stable stratification and unstable stratification are studied. In the parameter regime we are concerned with, stable stratification…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-12 Xing Wei , Andreas Tilgner

We continue our study, initiated in our earlier paper, of Riemann surfaces with constant curvature and isolated conic singularities. Using the machinery developed in that earlier paper of extended configuration families of simple divisors,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-06-04 Rafe Mazzeo , Xuwen Zhu

Optimal control problems with a very large time horizon can be tackled with the Receding Horizon Control (RHC) method, which consists in solving a sequence of optimal control problems with small prediction horizon. The main result of this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-02-03 Tobias Breiten , Laurent Pfeiffer

We propose an exact solution for a stratosphere dynamical core formulated in geopotential/pressure coordinates with a time-evolving lower boundary supplied by the troposphere. Rather than constraining the stratospheric circulation via…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2026-01-05 Johannes Lawen , George Salman , Akshita Bhardwaj

In this paper, we show how the motion of physical fields, in particular the electromagnetic potential, is connected with the choice of a space and time decomposition of the background spacetime manifold. The relation of the field dynamics…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-07-06 Rico Berner , Horst-Heino von Borzeszkowski , Thoralf Chrobok

By introducing a shape manifold as a solution set to solve inverse obstacle scattering problems we allow the reconstruction of general, not necessarily star-shaped curves. The bending energy is used as a stabilizing term in Tikhonov…

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The spherically symmetric static solutions are searched for in some f(T) models of gravity theory with a Maxwell term. To do this, we demonstrate that reconstructing the Lagrangian of f(T) theories is sensitive to the choice of frame, and…

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We present a toolchain for solving path planning problems for concentric tube robots through obstacle fields. First, ellipsoidal sets representing the target area and obstacles are constructed from labelled point clouds. Then, the nonlinear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-29 Matthias K. Hoffmann , Willem Esterhuizen , Karl Worthmann , Kathrin Flaßkamp

We consider the homogenized linear feasibility problem, to find an $x$ on the unit sphere, satisfying $n$ line ar inequalities $a_i^Tx\ge 0$. To solve this problem we consider the centers of the insphere of spherical simpl ices, whose…

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This work concerns an alignment problem that has applications in many geospatial problems such as resource allocation and building reliable disease maps. Here, we introduce the problem of optimally aligning $k$ collections of $m$ spatial…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-11-14 Emma L. McDaniel , Armin R. Mikler , Chetan Tiwari , Murray Patterson

We discuss stability of spherically symmetric static solutions in Newtonian limit of Jordan, Brans-Dicke field equations. The behavior of the stable equilibrium solutions for the spherically symmetric configurations considered here, it…

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We study optimization over Riemannian embedded submanifolds, where the objective function is relatively smooth in the ambient Euclidean space. Such problems have broad applications but are still largely unexplored. We introduce two…

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We received a solution of the shadow problem in n-dimensional Euclidean space for a family of sets, constructing from any convex domain having nonempty interior with the help of parallel translations and homotheties. We find a number of…

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In this paper, we deal with the problem of optimizing a black-box smooth function over a full-dimensional smooth convex set. We study sets of feasible curves that allow to properly characterize stationarity of a solution and possibly carry…

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We address discrete-time consensus on the Euclidean unit sphere. For this purpose we consider a distributed algorithm comprising the iterative projection of a conical combination of neighboring states. Neighborhoods are represented by a…

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We study the problem of target stabilization with robust obstacle avoidance in robots and vehicles that have access only to vision-based sensors for the purpose of realtime localization. This problem is particularly challenging due to the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Alejandro Murillo-Gonzalez , Jorge I. Poveda

This paper establishes strong convergence rates for the spatial finite element discretization of a two-dimensional stochastic Navier--Stokes system with transport noise and no-slip boundary conditions on a convex polygonal domain. The main…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-15 Binjie Li , Qin Zhou

Avoiding hybrid obstacles in unknown scenarios with an efficient flight strategy is a key challenge for unmanned aerial vehicle applications. In this paper, we introduce a more robust technique to distinguish and track dynamic obstacles…

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