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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…
The problem of numerical differentiation can be thought of as an inverse problem by considering it as solving a Volterra equation. It is well known that such inverse integral problems are ill-posed and one requires regularization methods to…
A fully numerical method to calculate loop integrals, a numerical contour-integration method, is proposed. Loop integrals can be interpreted as a contour integral in a complex plane for an integrand with multi-poles in the plane. Stable and…
We extend previously developed two-level coarsening procedures for graph Laplacian problems written in a mixed saddle point form to the fully recursive multilevel case. The resulting hierarchy of discretizations gives rise to a hierarchy of…
In this paper, we introduce a fast Fourier-Galerkin method for solving boundary integral equations on torus-shaped surfaces, which are diffeomorphic to a torus. We analyze the properties of the integral operator's kernel to derive the decay…
This paper describes an interdisciplinary approach to geometry modeling of geospatial boundaries. The objective is to extract surfaces from irregular spatial patterns using differential geometry and obtain coherent directional predictions…
This paper addresses the analysis and numerical assessment of a computational method for solving the Cahn--Hilliard equation defined on a surface. The proposed approach combines the stabilized trace finite element method for spatial…
The implementation of discontinuous functions occurs in many of today's state-of-the-art partial differential equation solvers. However, in finite element methods, this poses an inherent difficulty: efficient quadrature rules available when…
Calculations of the Fourier transform of a constant quantity over an area or volume defined by polygons (connected vertices) are often useful in modeling wave scattering, or in fourier-space filtering of real-space vector-based volumes and…
This paper is concerned with the nonconforming finite element discretization of geometric partial differential equations. In specific, we construct a surface Crouzeix-Raviart element on the linear approximated surface, analogous to a flat…
Discretization methods for differential-algebraic equations (DAEs) are considered that are based on the integration of an associated inherent ordinary differential equation (ODE). This allows to make use of any discretization scheme…
An analytical-numeric calculation method of extremely complicated integrals is presented. These integrals appear often in magnet soliton theory. The appropriate analytical continuation and a corresponding integration contour allow to reduce…
We describe a `discretize-then-relax' strategy to globally minimize integral functionals over functions $u$ in a Sobolev space subject to Dirichlet boundary conditions. The strategy applies whenever the integral functional depends…
Many large-scale optimization problems arising in science and engineering are naturally defined at multiple levels of discretization or model fidelity. Multilevel methods exploit this hierarchy to accelerate convergence by combining coarse-…
This paper presents a one-dimensional analog of the Rectangular-Polar (RP) integration strategy and its convergence analysis for weakly singular convolution integrals. The key idea of this method is to break the whole integral into integral…
In this work, we develop a localized numerical scheme with low regularity requirements for solving time-fractional integro-differential equations. First, a fully discrete numerical scheme is constructed. Specifically, for temporal…
Penetration depth (PD) is essential for robotics due to its extensive applications in dynamic simulation, motion planning, haptic rendering, etc. The Expanding Polytope Algorithm (EPA) is the de facto standard for this problem, which…
We introduce novel equations, in the spirit of rough path theory, that parametrize level sets of intrinsically regular maps on the Heisenberg group with values in $\mathbb{R}^2$. These equations can be seen as a sub-Riemannian counterpart…
Integral equations frequently arise in surface science, and in some cases, they must be treated as inverse problems. In our previous work on optical tweezers, atomic force microscopy, and surface force measurement apparatus, we performed…
We focus on two central themes in this dissertation. The first one is on decomposing polytopes and polynomials in ways that allow us to perform nonlinear optimization. We start off by explaining important results on decomposing a polytope…