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Volume computation for $d$-polytopes $\mathcal{P}$ is fundamental in mathematics. There are known volume computation algorithms, mostly based on triangulation or signed-decomposition of $\mathcal{P}$. We consider $…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-01-09 Guoce Xin , Xinyu Xu , Yingrui Zhang , Zihao Zhang

We provide two algorithms for computing the volume of a convex polytope with half-space representation {x>=0; Ax <=b} for some (m,n) matrix A and some m-vector b. Both algorithms have a O(n^m) computational complexity which makes them…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 J. B. Lasserre , E. S. Zeron

We present a novel interface-capturing scheme, THINC-scaling, to unify the VOF (volume of fluid) and the level set methods, which have been developed as two completely different approaches widely used in various applications. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-08-14 Ronit Kumar , Lidong Cheng , Bin Xie , Feng Xiao

A new PLIC (piecewise linear interface calculation)-type VOF (volume of fluid) method, called APPLIC (approximated PLIC) method, is presented. Although the PLIC method is one of the most accurate VOF methods, the three-dimensional algorithm…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-05-27 Akio Kawano

The moment-of-fluid (MOF) method is an extension of the volume-of-fluid method with piecewise linear interface construction (VOF-PLIC). By minimizing the least square error of the centroid of the cutting polyhedron, the MOF method…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-08-06 Zhouteng Ye , Mark Sussman , Yi Zhan , Xizeng Zhao

We develop a new and efficient method to systematically analyse four dimensional effective supergravities which descend from flux compactifications. The issue of finding vacua of such systems, both supersymmetric and non-supersymmetric, is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-02-03 James Gray , Yang-Hui He , André Lukas

A new approach for reducing error of the volume penalization method is proposed. The mask function is modified by shifting the interface between solid and fluid by ({\nu}{\eta})^0.5 toward the fluid region, where {\nu} and {\eta} are the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2014-09-05 Wakana Iwakami , Yuzuru Yatagai , Nozomu Hatakeyama , Yuji Hattori

We consider a range-search variant of the closest-pair problem. Let $\varGamma$ be a fixed shape in the plane. We are interested in storing a given set of $n$ points in the plane in some data structure such that for any specified translate…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-03-25 Jie Xue , Yuan Li , Saladi Rahul , Ravi Janardan

For capillary driven flow the interface curvature is essential in the modelling of surface tension via the imposition of the Young--Laplace jump condition. We show that traditional geometric volume of fluid (VOF) methods, that are based on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-08-31 Ronald A. Remmerswaal , Arthur E. P. Veldman

Volume of fluid(VOF) method is a sharp interface method employed for simulations of two phase flows. Interface in VOF is usually represented using piecewise linear line segments in each computational grid based on the volume fraction field.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-02-02 Ananthan M , Gaurav Tomar

A second-order face-centred finite volume strategy on general meshes is proposed. The method uses a mixed formulation in which a constant approximation of the unknown is computed on the faces of the mesh. Such information is then used to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-12-01 Matteo Giacomini , Ruben Sevilla

We devise a numerical method for passive advection of a surface, such as the interface between two incompressible fluids, across a computational mesh. The method is called isoAdvector, and is developed for general meshes consisting of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-11-29 Johan Roenby , Henrik Bredmose , Hrvoje Jasak

We present an exact general remeshing scheme to compute analytic integrals of polynomial functions over the intersections between convex polyhedral cells of old and new meshes. In physics applications this allows one to ensure global mass,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Devon Powell , Tom Abel

This work develops advanced numerical methods for free-surface simulations of polymer mixing processes, integrating a Volume of Fluid (VOF) interface-capturing approach with a non-conforming Immersed Boundary (IB) method to model two-phase…

We present a novel framework to deal with static and moving immersed boundaries (IB). In this strategy, called Volume-Filtering Immersed Boundary (VFIB) method, transport equations are derived by filtering the Navier-Stokes equations and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-05-24 Himanshu Dave , Marcus Herrmann , M. Houssem Kasbaoui

Simulations involving free surfaces and fluid interfaces are important in many areas of engineering. There is, however, still a need for improved simulation methods. Recently, a new efficient geometric VOF method called isoAdvector for…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-01-23 Henning Scheufler , Johan Roenby

The paper is concerned with an adjoint complement to the Volume-of-Fluid (VoF) method for immiscible two-phase flows, e.g. air and water, which is widely used in marine engineering due to its computational efficiency. The particular…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-06-02 Niklas Kühl , Jörn Kröger , Martin Siebenborn , Michael Hinze , Thomas Rung

Swept volume computation, the determination of regions occupied by moving objects, is essential in graphics, robotics, and manufacturing. Existing approaches either explicitly track surfaces, suffering from robustness issues under complex…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Pengfei Wang , Yuexin Yang , Shuangmin Chen , Shiqing Xin , Changhe Tu , Wenping Wang

We present a machine-learning based Volume Of Fluid method to simulate multi-material flows on three-dimensional domains. One of the novelties of the method is that the flux fraction is computed by evaluating a previously trained neural…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Moreno Pintore , Bruno Després

The finite volume methods are frequently employed in the discretization of diffusion problems with interface. In this paper, we firstly present a vertex-centered MACH-like finite volume method for solving stationary diffusion problems with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-09-07 Jie Peng , Shi Shu , Haiyuan Yu , Chunsheng Feng , Mingxian Kan , Ganghua Wang