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Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-11-03 Kyle C. Smith , Ishan Srivastava , Timothy S. Fisher , Meheboob Alam

A thorough in situ characterization of materials at extreme conditions is challenging, and computational tools such as crystal structural search methods in combination with ab initio calculations are widely used to guide experiments by…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-11-14 Maximilian Amsler , Vinay I. Hegde , Steven D. Jacobsen , Chris Wolverton

Nowadays high speed machining (HSM) machine tool combines productivity and part quality. So mould and die maker invested in HSM. Die and mould features are more and more complex shaped. Thus, it is difficult to choose the best machining…

Robotics · Computer Science 2009-10-12 Laurent Tapie , Kwamiwi Mawussi , Bernard Anselmetti

Triply periodic minimal surfaces (TPMS) are a class of metamaterials with a variety of applications and well-known primitive morphologies. We present a new method for discovering novel microscale TPMS structures with exceptional…

This paper proposes a stable sparse rapidly-exploring random trees (SST) algorithm to solve the optimal motion planning problem for hybrid systems. At each iteration, the proposed algorithm, called HySST, selects a vertex with the lowest…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Nan Wang , Ricardo G. Sanfelice

The Nystr\"om method is a convenient heuristic method to obtain low-rank approximations to kernel matrices in nearly linear complexity. Existing studies typically use the method to approximate positive semidefinite matrices with low or…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-13 Jianlin Xia

We discuss our new implementation of the Real-space Electronic Structure method for studying the atomic and electronic structure of infinite periodic as well as finite systems, based on density functional theory. This improved version which…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-31 U. V. Waghmare , Hanchul Kim , I. J. Park , Normand Modine , P. Maragakis , Efthimios Kaxiras

The ensemble average of physical properties of molecules is closely related to the distribution of molecular conformations, and sampling such distributions is a fundamental challenge in physics and chemistry. Traditional methods like…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Liya Guo , Zun Wang , Chang Liu , Junzhe Li , Pipi Hu , Yi Zhu

Molecular dynamics simulations have emerged as a potent tool for investigating the physical properties and kinetic behaviors of materials at the atomic scale, particularly in extreme conditions. Ab initio accuracy is now achievable with…

Machine learning (ML) can facilitate efficient thermoelectric (TE) material discovery essential to address the environmental crisis. However, ML models often suffer from poor experimental generalizability despite high metrics. This study…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-03 Shoeb Athar , Adrien Mecibah , Philippe Jund

As a complementary tool to laboratory experiments, discrete numerical simulation, applied to granular materials, provides valuable information on the grain and contact scale microstructure, thereby enabling one to better understand the…

Classical Physics · Physics 2009-01-23 Jean-Noël Roux , François Chevoir

Saddle point search schemes are widely used to identify the transition state of different processes, like chemical reactions, surface and bulk diffusion, surface adsorption, and many more. In solid-state materials with relatively large…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-02-22 Seyyedfaridoddin Fattahpour , Sara Kadkhodaei

Graph network-based simulators (GNS) have demonstrated strong potential for learning particle-based physics (such as fluids, deformable solids, and granular flows) while generalizing to unseen geometries due to their inherent inductive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Naveen Raj Manoharan , Hassan Iqbal , Krishna Kumar

Mechanical metamaterials utilize geometry to achieve exceptional mechanical properties, including those not typically possible for traditional materials. To achieve these properties, it is necessary to identify the proper structures and…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-10-11 Jiakun Liu , Adam Taylor , Sage Fulco , Sumukh S. Pande , Kevin T. Turner

This paper serves as our first effort to develop a new triangular spectral element method (TSEM) on unstructured meshes, using the rectangle-triangle mapping proposed in the conference note [21]. Here, we provide some new insights into the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-04-24 Michael Daniel Samson , Huiyuan Li , Li-Lian Wang

We introduce the cosmological HYPER code based on an innovative hydro-particle-mesh (HPM) algorithm for efficient and rapid simulations of gas and dark matter. For the HPM algorithm, we update the approach of Gnedin & Hui (1998) to expand…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-09 Yizhou He , Hy Trac , Nickolay Y. Gnedin

We propose Hier-SLAM, a semantic 3D Gaussian Splatting SLAM method featuring a novel hierarchical categorical representation, which enables accurate global 3D semantic mapping, scaling-up capability, and explicit semantic label prediction…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Boying Li , Zhixi Cai , Yuan-Fang Li , Ian Reid , Hamid Rezatofighi

Many materials processes and properties depend on the anisotropy of the energy of grain boundaries, i.e.~on the fact that this energy is a function of the five geometric degrees of freedom (DOF) of the interface. To access this parameter…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-07-26 Timo Schmalofski , Martin Kroll , Holger Dette , Rebecca Janisch

AutoML platforms have numerous options for the algorithms to try for each step of the analysis, i.e., different possible algorithms for imputation, transformations, feature selection, and modelling. Finding the optimal combination of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Giorgos Borboudakis , Paulos Charonyktakis , Konstantinos Paraschakis , Ioannis Tsamardinos

We introduce hydra (hyperbolic distance recovery and approximation), a new method for embedding network- or distance-based data into hyperbolic space. We show mathematically that hydra satisfies a certain optimality guarantee: It minimizes…

Computation · Statistics 2019-09-04 Martin Keller-Ressel , Stephanie Nargang