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Phase field modelling offers an extremely general framework to predict microstructural evolutions in complex systems. However, its computational implementation requires a discretisation scheme with a grid spacing small enough to preserve…

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Numerical solutions of partial differential equations (PDEs) require expensive simulations, limiting their application in design optimization, model-based control, and large-scale inverse problems. Surrogate modeling techniques seek to…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-05-18 James Duvall , Karthik Duraisamy , Shaowu Pan

Tactile perception is key to dexterous manipulation, yet simulating high-resolution elastomer deformation remains computationally prohibitive. Finite element methods (FEM) deliver high fidelity but demand costly remeshing, while Material…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Yuhu Guo , Zhikai Shen , Jiasheng Qu , Chenghao Qian , Yuming Huang , Bin Chen , Guoxing Fang

We investigate dendritic sidebranching during crystal growth in an undercooled melt by simulation of a phase-field model which incorporates thermal noise of microscopic origin. As a non-trivial quantitative test of this model, we first show…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-31 Alain Karma , Wouter-Jan Rappel

We consider numerical simulation of the isotropic elastic wave equations arising from seismic applications with non-trivial land topography. The more flexible finite element method is applied to the shallow region of the simulation domain…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-12-26 Longfei Gao , David Keyes

In this paper we present a new high order semi-implicit DG scheme on two-dimensional staggered triangular meshes applied to different nonlinear systems of hyperbolic conservation laws such as advection-diffusion models, incompressible…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-02-13 M. Tavelli , W. Boscheri

In this work, we propose a numerical approach for simulations of large deformations of interfaces in a level set framework. To obtain a fast and viable numerical solution in both time and space, temporal discretization is based on the…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2023-05-30 Aymen Laadhari , Ahmad Deeb

How neurons process their inputs crucially determines the dynamics of biological and artificial neural networks. In such neural and neural-like systems, synaptic input is typically considered to be merely transmitted linearly or sublinearly…

Biological Physics · Physics 2017-06-01 David Breuer , Marc Timme , Raoul-Martin Memmesheimer

Immersed boundary methods simplify mesh generation by embedding the domain of interest into an extended domain that is easy to mesh, introducing the challenge of dealing with cells that intersect the domain boundary. Combined with explicit…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Christian Faßbender , Tim Bürchner , Philipp Kopp , Ernst Rank , Stefan Kollmannsberger

Mean-field systems have been previously derived for networks of coupled, two-dimensional, integrate-and-fire neurons such as the Izhikevich, adapting exponential (AdEx) and quartic integrate and fire (QIF), among others. Unfortunately, the…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2016-05-19 Wilten Nicola , Cheng Ly , Sue Ann Campbell

Rigorous computer simulations of propagating electromagnetic fields have become an important tool for optical metrology and design of nanostructured optical components. A vectorial finite element method (FEM) is a good choice for an…

Optics · Physics 2009-05-28 L. Zschiedrich , S. Burger , A. Schädle , F. Schmidt

In this work, we present a mathematical model for cyclic and sequential patterns of brain activity, combining heteroclinic dynamics with discrete neural-field models. We first show that spatial-discrete neural-field equations with…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-05-05 M Virginia Bolelli , Luca Greco , Dario Prandi

Real-time simulation of elastic structures is essential in many applications, from computer-guided surgical interventions to interactive design in mechanical engineering. The Finite Element Method is often used as the numerical method of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Alban Odot , Ryadh Haferssas , Stéphane Cotin

Implicit models are a general class of learning models that forgo the hierarchical layer structure typical in neural networks and instead define the internal states based on an ``equilibrium'' equation, offering competitive performance and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-21 Alicia Y. Tsai , Juliette Decugis , Laurent El Ghaoui , Alper Atamtürk

The scientific computation methods development in conjunction with artificial intelligence technologies remains a hot research topic. Finding a balance between lightweight and accurate computations is a solid foundation for this direction.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Nikita Sakovich , Dmitry Aksenov , Ekaterina Pleshakova , Sergey Gataullin

We analytically study the input-output properties of a neuron whose active dendritic tree, modeled as a Cayley tree of excitable elements, is subjected to Poisson stimulus. Both single-site and two-site mean-field approximations incorrectly…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2012-01-18 Leonardo L. Gollo , Osame Kinouchi , Mauro Copelli

Neural or cortical fields are continuous assemblies of mesoscopic models, also called neural masses, of neural populations that are fundamental in the modeling of macroscopic parts of the brain. Neural fields are described by nonlinear…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2010-09-22 Romain Veltz , Olivier Faugeras

Neurons are spatially extended structures that receive and process inputs on their dendrites. It is generally accepted that neuronal computations arise from the active integration of synaptic inputs along a dendrite between the input…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2013-09-11 Willem A. M. Wybo , Klaus M. Stiefel , Benjamin Torben-Nielsen

We present a structure-preserving Eulerian algorithm for solving $L^2$-gradient flows and a structure-preserving Lagrangian algorithm for solving generalized diffusions. Both algorithms employ neural networks as tools for spatial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-16 Ziqing Hu , Chun Liu , Yiwei Wang , Zhiliang Xu

Neuron is the most important building block in our brain, and information processing in individual neuron involves the transformation of input synaptic spike trains into an appropriate output spike train. Hardware implementation of neuron…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2015-06-16 Changjin Wan , Ning Liu , Ping Feng , Liqiang Zhu , Yi Shi , Qing Wan