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Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-02-08 Carolina Vittoria Beccari , Giulio Casciola

In this communication the advantages and drawbacks of the isogeometric analysis (IGA) are reviewed in the context of electromagnetic simulations. IGA extends the set of polynomial basis functions, commonly employed by the classical Finite…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2017-09-19 Zeger Bontinck , Jacopo Corno , Herbert De Gersem , Stefan Kurz , Andreas Pels , Sebastian Schöps , Felix Wolf , Carlo de Falco , Jürgen Dölz , Rafael Vázquez , Ulrich Römer

Spline functions are smooth piecewise polynomials widely used for interpolation and smoothing, and nonnegative spline smoothing is also studied for nonnegative data. Previous research used sufficient conditions for the nonnegativity of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-06 Hiroki Arai , Daichi Kitahara

We study the module $C^r(\mathcal{P})$ of piecewise polynomial functions of smoothness $r$ on a pure $n$-dimensional polytopal complex $\mathcal{P}\subset\mathbb{R}^n$, via an analysis of certain subcomplexes $\mathcal{P}_W$ obtained from…

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2014-02-07 Michael DiPasquale

Generalizing tensor-product splines to smooth functions whose control nets outline topological polyhedra, bi-cubic polyhedral splines form a piecewise polynomial, first-order differentiable space that associates one function with each…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-04-26 Bhaskar Mishra , Jorg Peters

In this paper we study monomial multiple structures on a linear subspace of codimension two in projective space. We show that these structures determine smooth points in their respective Hilbert schemes, with (smooth) neighbourhoods of two…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Jon Eivind Vatne

In Isogeometric Analysis, the computational domain is often described as multi-patch, where each patch is given by a tensor product spline/NURBS parametrization. In this work we propose a FETI-like solver where local inexact solvers exploit…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-09-23 Michal Bosy , Monica Montardini , Giancarlo Sangalli , Mattia Tani

This work introduces a scaffolding framework to compactly parametrise solid structures with conforming NURBS elements for isogeometric analysis. A novel formulation introduces a topological, geometrical and parametric subdivision of the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-06-10 Stefano Moriconi , Parashkev Nachev , Sebastien Ourselin , M. Jorge Cardoso

We introduce new manifold-based splines that are able to exactly reproduce B-splines on unstructured surface meshes. Such splines can be used in isogeometric analysis (IGA) to represent smooth surfaces of arbitrary topology. Since prevalent…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-01-31 Qiaoling Zhang , Thomas Takacs , Fehmi Cirak

Localization and mapping with heterogeneous multi-sensor fusion have been prevalent in recent years. To adequately fuse multi-modal sensor measurements received at different time instants and different frequencies, we estimate the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-16 Jiajun Lv , Xiaolei Lang , Jinhong Xu , Mengmeng Wang , Yong Liu , Xingxing Zuo

This work focuses on the development of a super-penalty strategy based on the $L^2$-projection of suitable coupling terms to achieve $C^1$-continuity between non-conforming multi-patch isogeometric Kirchhoff plates. In particular, the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-29 Luca Coradello , Gabriele Loli , Annalisa Buffa

The construction of volumetric parametrizations for computational domains is a key step in the pipeline of isogeometric analysis. Here, we investigate a solution to this problem based on the mesh deformation approach. The desired domain is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-03-25 Alexander Shamanskiy , Michael Helmut Gfrerer , Jochen Hinz , Bernd Simeon

In this paper, we develop multigrid solvers for the biharmonic problem in the framework of isogeometric analysis (IgA). In this framework, one typically sets up B-splines on the unit square or cube and transforms them to the domain of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-06-18 Jarle Sogn , Stefan Takacs

This paper presents the first method for constructing bases for polynomial spline spaces over an arbitrary T-meshes (PT-splines for short). We construct spline basis functions for an arbitrary T-mesh by first converting the T-mesh into a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-15 Shicong Zhong , Falai Chen , Bingru Huang

This paper presents a PDE-based parameterisation framework for addressing the planar surface-to-volume (StV) problem of finding a valid description of the domain's interior given no more than a spline-based description of its boundary…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-24 Jochen Hinz , Annalisa Buffa

The multilinear framework has achieved the breakthrough $1-1/e$ approximation for maximizing a monotone submodular function subject to a matroid constraint. This framework has a continuous optimization part and a rounding part. We extend…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-06-03 Mehrdad Ghadiri , Richard Santiago , Bruce Shepherd

Reachable Minimally supported (RM) B-splines have been recently introduced as a novel B-spline--like basis. They feature local linear independence and admit a fast de Boor--like evaluation algorithm. These properties make them particularly…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-01 Francesco Patrizi

In this paper we provide a priori error estimates in standard Sobolev (semi-)norms for approximation in spline spaces of maximal smoothness on arbitrary grids. The error estimates are expressed in terms of a power of the maximal grid…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-07-09 Espen Sande , Carla Manni , Hendrik Speleers

The generation of smoother and shorter spiral complete coverage paths in multi-connected domains is a crucial research topic in path planning for robotic cavity machining and other related fields. Traditional methods for spiral path…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Changqing Shen , Sihao Mao , Bingzhou Xu , Ziwei Wang , Xiaojian Zhang , Sijie Yan , Han Ding

This paper considers the problem of smoothing convex functions and sets, seeking the nearest smooth convex function or set to a given one. For convex cones and sublinear functions, a full characterization of the set of all optimal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-22 Thabo Samakhoana , Benjamin Grimmer