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In recent work we have shown how an accurate reduced model can be utilized to perform mesh refinement in random space. That work relied on the explicit knowledge of an accurate reduced model which is used to monitor the transfer of activity…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-09-21 Jing Li , Panos Stinis

In this paper, we present a surface remeshing method with high approximation quality based on Principal Component Analysis. Given a triangular mesh and a user assigned polygon/vertex budget, traditional methods usually require the extra…

Graphics · Computer Science 2018-04-10 Yiqi Cai , Xiaohu Guo , Yang Liu , Wenping Wang , Weihua Mao , Zichun Zhong

A mesh improvement methodology is pre- sented which aims to improve the quality of the worst elements in 3D meshes with non-planar surfaces which cannot be improved using traditional methods. A nu- merical optimisation algorithm, which…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-07-15 Alan Kelly , Lukasz Kaczmarczyk , Chris Pearce

A feature-mapping framework for inverse reconstruction of density-based topology optimization results is proposed. Unlike SIMP, whose voxelized outputs are hard to interpret or reuse, the method represents designs with high-level geometric…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-16 Patrick Jung

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

We consider problems related to initial meshing and adaptive mesh refinement for the electromagnetic simulation of various structures. The quality of the initial mesh and the performance of the adaptive refinement are of great importance…

Adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) reduces computational costs in CFD by concentrating resolution where needed, but efficiently embedding complex, non-aligned geometries on GPUs remains challenging. We present a GPU-native algorithm for…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Khodr Jaber , Ebenezer E. Essel , Pierre E. Sullivan

An adaptive mesh refinement and error estimation method for numerically solving optimal control problems is developed using Legendre-Gauss-Radau direct collocation. In regions of the solution where the desired accuracy tolerance has not…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-11 George V. Haman , Anil V. Rao

We present and analyze a new finite element method for solving interface problems on a triangular grid. The method locally modifies a given triangulation such that the interfaces are accurately resolved and the maximal angle condition…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-02 Peter Gangl , Ulrich Langer

This work introduces a novel adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) method that utilizes dominant balance analysis (DBA) for efficient and accurate grid adaptation in computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations. The proposed method leverages a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-11-06 Gaurav Kumar , Aditya G. Nair

Micro-structured materials consisting of an array of microstructures are engineered to provide the specific material properties. This present work investigates the design of cellular materials under the framework of level set, so as to…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2018-11-13 Jie Gao , Hao Li , Zhen Luo , Liang Gao , Peigen Li

Adaptive Finite Element Method (adaptivity) is known to be an effective numerical tool for some ill-posed problems. The key advantage of the adaptivity is the image improvement with local mesh refinements. A rigorous proof of this property…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-10-30 Larisa Beilina , Michael V. Klibanov

This paper proposes a novel paradigm for machine learning that moves beyond traditional parameter optimization. Unlike conventional approaches that search for optimal parameters within a fixed geometric space, our core idea is to treat the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Di Zhang

We present a method to jointly refine the geometry and semantic segmentation of 3D surface meshes. Our method alternates between updating the shape and the semantic labels. In the geometry refinement step, the mesh is deformed with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-27 Maros Blaha , Mathias Rothermel , Martin R. Oswald , Torsten Sattler , Audrey Richard , Jan D. Wegner , Marc Pollefeys , Konrad Schindler

Cartesian-grid methods with Adaptive Mesh Refinement (AMR) are ideally suited for simulating the breaking of waves, the formation of spray, and the entrainment of air around ships. As a result of the cartesian-grid formulation, minimal…

The use of multigrid and related preconditioners with the finite element method is often limited by the difficulty of applying the algorithm effectively to a problem, especially when the domain has a complex shape or adaptive refinement. We…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Peter R. Brune , Matthew G. Knepley , L. Ridgway Scott

We study dendritic microstructure evolution using an adaptive grid, finite element method applied to a phase-field model. The computational complexity of our algorithm, per unit time, scales linearly with system size, rather than the…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-30 Nikolas Provatas , Nigel Goldenfeld , Jonathan Dantzig

Structural optimization (topology, shapes, sizing) is an important tool for facilitating the emergence of new concepts in structural design. Normally, topology optimization is carried out at the early stage of design and then shape and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-16 Ghislain Raze , Joseph Morlier

Fully connected layers are a primary source of memory and computational overhead in deep neural networks due to their dense, often redundant parameterization. While various compression techniques exist, they frequently introduce complex…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Maksymilian Szorc

Fluid-Structure Interaction (FSI) is a crucial problem in ocean engineering. The smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) method has been employed recently for FSI problems in light of its Lagrangian nature and its advantage in handling…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-07-19 Tianrun Gao , Huihe Qiu , Lin Fu