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The discretization of surface intrinsic elliptic partial differential equations (PDEs) poses interesting challenges not seen in flat space. The discretization of these PDEs typically proceeds by either parametrizing the surface,…
The discretization of elliptic PDEs leads to large coupled systems of equations. Domain decomposition methods (DDMs) are one approach to the solution of these systems, and can split the problem in a way that allows for parallel computing.…
Many geometry processing techniques require the solution of partial differential equations (PDEs) on manifolds embedded in $\mathbb{R}^2$ or $\mathbb{R}^3$, such as curves or surfaces. Such manifold PDEs often involve boundary conditions…
We generalize the closest point method (CPM) to solve surface partial differential equations with general boundary conditions. The proposed extrapolation method provides a unified framework for treating a broad class of inhomogeneous…
Partial differential equations (PDEs) on surfaces arise in a wide range of applications. The closest point method (Ruuth and Merriman, J. Comput. Phys. 227(3):1943-1961, [2008]) is a recent embedding method that has been used to solve a…
The DD-CPM software library provides a set of tools for the discretization and solution of problems arising from the closest point method (CPM) for partial differential equations on surfaces. The solvers are built on top of the well-known…
The closest point method (Ruuth and Merriman, J. Comput. Phys. 227(3):1943-1961, [2008]) is an embedding method developed to solve a variety of partial differential equations (PDEs) on smooth surfaces, using a closest point representation…
We propose an overlapping Schwarz space-time refinement framework for the material point method (OS-MPM) to improve computational efficiency in problems with strongly localized deformation, contact, and large geometric nonlinearity. The…
We introduce a method-of-lines formulation of the closest point method, a numerical technique for solving partial differential equations (PDEs) defined on surfaces. This is an embedding method, which uses an implicit representation of the…
Maps from a source manifold $ {\mathcal M}$ to a target manifold ${\mathcal N}$ appear in liquid crystals, colour image enhancement, texture mapping, brain mapping, and many other areas. A numerical framework to solve variational problems…
In this article, we analyse the convergence behaviour and scalability properties of the one-level Parallel Schwarz method (PSM) for domain decomposition problems in which the boundaries of many subdomains lie in the interior of the global…
We investigate the parallel one-level overlapping Schwarz method for solving finite element discretization of high-frequency Helmholtz equations. The resulting linear systems are large, indefinite, ill-conditioned, and complex-valued. We…
We introduce the Closest Point Heat Method (CPHM), a novel approach for solving the surface Eikonal equation on general smooth surfaces. Building on the strengths of the classical heat method, such as simplicity of implementation and…
We discuss parallel (additive) and sequential (multiplicative) variants of overlapping Schwarz methods for the Helmholtz equation in $\mathbb{R}^d$, with large real wavenumber and smooth variable wave speed. The radiation condition is…
Convergence is proven for Schwarz-like methods applied to degenerate elliptic-parabolic equations with a $p$-structure. This family of PDEs, e.g., arises when modelling nonlinear diffusion processes. The Schwarz-like approximation methods…
In this paper, we propose an efficient two-level additive Schwarz method for solving large-scale eigenvalue problems arising from the finite element discretization of symmetric elliptic operators, which may compute efficiently more interior…
Real-time fluid and aeroacoustic simulation on complex surfaces can have interactive applications - from globe-based weather visualizations to immersive computer games with physically accurate wind and sound. However, conventional…
We analyse parallel overlapping Schwarz domain decomposition methods for the Helmholtz equation, where the subdomain problems satisfy first-order absorbing (impedance) transmission conditions, and exchange of information between subdomains…
Elliptic partial differential equations are important both from application and analysis points of views. In this paper we apply the Closest Point Method to solving elliptic equations on general curved surfaces. Based on the closest point…
Motivated by problems where the response is needed at select localized regions in a large computational domain, we devise a novel finite element discretization that results in exponential convergence at pre-selected points. The two key…