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We present and analyze an a posteriori error estimator based on mesh refinement for the solution of the hypersingular boundary integral equation governing the Laplacian in three dimensions. The discretization under consideration is a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-07-30 Catalina Domínguez , Norbert Heuer

Lattice Boltzmann Methods (LBM) stand out for their simplicity and computational efficiency while offering the possibility of simulating complex phenomena. While they are optimal for Cartesian meshes, adapted meshes have traditionally been…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-28 Loïc Gouarin , Benjamin Graille , Marc Massot , Thomas Bellotti

We develop a new optimisation technique that combines multiresolution subdivision surfaces for boundary description with immersed finite elements for the discretisation of the primal and adjoint problems of optimisation. Similar to wavelets…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-01-20 Kosala Bandara , Thomas Rüberg , Fehmi Cirak

This article investigates adaptive mesh refinement procedures for the time-domain wave equation with Neumann boundary conditions, formulated as an equivalent hypersingular boundary integral equation. Space-adaptive and time-adaptive…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-28 Alessandra Aimi , Giulia Di Credico , Heiko Gimperlein , Chiara Guardasoni

We study the effect of adaptive mesh refinement on a parallel domain decomposition solver of a linear system of algebraic equations. These concepts need to be combined within a parallel adaptive finite element software. A prototype…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-01-08 Pavel Kůs , Jakub Šístek

Elliptic Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) play a central role in computing the equilibrium conditions of physical problems (heat, gravitation, electrostatics, etc.). Efficient solutions to elliptic PDEs are also relevant to computer…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Zhiyuan Zhang , Amir Vaxman , Stefanos-Aldo Papanicolopulos , Kartic Subr

Mesh adaptivity is a technique to provide detail in numerical solutions without the need to refine the mesh over the whole domain. Mesh adaptivity in isogeometric analysis can be driven by Truncated Hierarchical B-splines (THB-splines)…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-20 H. M. Verhelst , A. Mantzaflaris , M. Möller , J. H. Den Besten

We present a method of CutFEM type for the Poisson problem with either Dirichlet or Neumann boundary conditions. The computational mesh is obtained from a background (typically uniform Cartesian) mesh by retaining only the elements…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-09-04 Alexei Lozinski

The multigroup neutron diffusion equations are often used to model the neutron density at the nuclear reactor core scale. Classically, these equations can be recast in a mixed variational form. This chapter presents an adaptive mesh…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-18 Patrick Ciarlet, , Minh-Hieu Do , François Madiot

For most finite element simulations, boundary-conforming meshes have significant advantages in terms of accuracy or efficiency. This is particularly true for complex domains. However, with increased complexity of the domain, generating a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-07 Jan Helmig , Fabian Key , Marek Behr , Stefanie Elgeti

In this paper, we examine a number of additive and multiplicative multilevel iterative methods and preconditioners in the setting of two-dimensional local mesh refinement. While standard multilevel methods are effective for uniform…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2010-01-12 Burak Aksoylu , Stephen Bond , Michael Holst

The typical goal of surface remeshing consists in finding a mesh that is (1) geometrically faithful to the original geometry, (2) as coarse as possible to obtain a low-complexity representation and (3) free of bad elements that would hamper…

Graphics · Computer Science 2016-11-08 Kaimo Hu , Dong-Ming Yan , David Bommes , Pierre Alliez , Bedrich Benes

In this paper we present an adaptive discretization technique for solving elliptic partial differential equations via a collocation radial basis function partition of unity method. In particular, we propose a new adaptive scheme based on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-11-13 R. Cavoretto , A. De Rossi

Only a few numerical methods can treat boundary value problems on polygonal and polyhedral meshes. The BEM-based Finite Element Method is one of the new discretization strategies, which make use of and benefits from the flexibility of these…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-08-29 Steffen Weißer

This paper details the development and application of an $h$-adaptive finite element method for the numerical solution of the \textit{Falkner-Skan equation}. A posteriori error estimation governs the adaptivity of the mesh, specifically the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-06 B. Veena S. N. Rao

This work is motivated by the need of efficient numerical simulations of gas flows in the serpentine channels used in proton-exchange membrane fuel cells. In particular, we consider the Poisson problem in a 2D domain composed of several…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-12-14 Hussein Albazzal , Alexei Lozinski , Roberta Tittarelli

Implicit-solvent models are widely used to study the electrostatics in dissolved biomolecules, which are parameterized using force fields. Standard force fields treat the charge distribution with point charges, however, other force fields…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-10-10 Christopher D. Cooper

Trimming consists of cutting away parts of a geometric domain, without reconstructing a global parametrization (meshing). It is a widely used operation in computer aided design, which generates meshes that are unfitted with the described…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-08-10 Annalisa Buffa , Ondine Chanon , Rafael Vázquez

The computational study of chemical reactions in complex, wet environments is critical for applications in many fields. It is often essential to study chemical reactions in the presence of applied electrochemical potentials, taking into…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-01-20 G. Fisicaro , L. Genovese , O. Andreussi , N. Marzari , S. Goedecker

Lattice-Boltzmann methods are known for their simplicity, efficiency and ease of parallelization, usually relying on uniform Cartesian meshes with a strong bond between spatial and temporal discretization. This fact complicates the crucial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-19 Thomas Bellotti , Loïc Gouarin , Benjamin Graille , Marc Massot