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A new approach was recently introduced by the authors for constructing analytic solutions of the linear PDEs describing elastodynamics. Here, this approach is applied to the case of a homogeneous isotropic half-space body satisfying…
We study the convergence of a discrete Luenberger observer for the barotropic Euler equations in one dimension, for measurements of the velocity only. We use a mixed finite element method in space and implicit Euler integration in time. We…
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We construct a method to fair a given discrete planar curve by using the integrable discrete analogue of Euler's elastica, which is a discrete version of the approximation algorithm presented by D. Brander, et al. We first give a brief…
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Tensor networks provide compact and scalable representations of high-dimensional data, enabling efficient computation in fields such as quantum physics, numerical partial differential equations (PDEs), and machine learning. This paper…