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A handy technique for the Finite Element Method (FEM) is presented that uses the null space for the implementation of Dirichlet and constraint boundary conditions. The focus of this method is to present an illustrative approach to modeling…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-03-12 Stefan Schoder

Numerical simulations of crystal defects are necessarily restricted to finite computational domains, supplying artificial boundary conditions that emulate the effect of embedding the defect in an effectively infinite crystalline…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-05-25 V. Ehrlacher , C. Ortner , A. V. Shapeev

3D point cloud registration is a fundamental problem in computer vision and robotics. There has been extensive research in this area, but existing methods meet great challenges in situations with a large proportion of outliers and time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Kexue Fu , Shaolei Liu , Xiaoyuan Luo , Manning Wang

In recent decades, the use of 3D point clouds has been widespread in computer industry. The development of techniques in analyzing point clouds is increasingly important. In particular, mapping of point clouds has been a challenging…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-02-10 Ting Wei Meng , Gary Pui-Tung Choi , Lok Ming Lui

The concept of a Point Cloud has played an increasingly important role in many areas of Engineering, Science, and Mathematics. Examples are: LIDAR, 3D-Printing, Data Analysis, Computer Graphics, Machine Learning, Mathematical Visualization,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-11-16 Richard Palais , Bob Palais , Hermann Karcher

In this work, we have applied physics-informed neural networks (PINN) for solving mesh deformation problems. We used the collocation PINN method to capture the new positions of the vertex nodes while preserving the connectivity information.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-01-18 Atakan Aygun , Romit Maulik , Ali Karakus

Recovering CAD models from point clouds requires reconstructing their topology and sketch-based extrusion primitives. A dominant paradigm for representing sketches involves implicit neural representations such as Signed Distance Fields…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Xinzhu Ma , Cheng Wang , Chen Tang , Bin Wang , Shixiang Tang , Yuan Meng , Yunhong Wang , Di Huang

Point cloud is point sets defined in 3D metric space. Point cloud has become one of the most significant data format for 3D representation. Its gaining increased popularity as a result of increased availability of acquisition devices, such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-20 Saifullahi Aminu Bello , Shangshu Yu , Cheng Wang

We present a new finite element method, called $\phi$-FEM, to solve numerically elliptic partial differential equations with natural (Neumann or Robin) boundary conditions using simple computational grids, not fitted to the boundary of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-12-08 Michel Duprez , Vanessa Lleras , Alexei Lozinski

Point cloud stands as the most widely adopted format for representing 3D shapes and scenes due to its simplicity and geometric fidelity. However, its inherent unordered and irregular nature, exacerbated by sensor noise and occlusions,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Minhas Kamal , Hiranya Garbha Kumar , Balakrishnan Prabhakaran

Natural language offers a highly intuitive interface for enabling localized fine-grained edits of 3D shapes. However, prior works face challenges in preserving global coherence while locally modifying the input 3D shape. In this work, we…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Etai Sella , Noam Atia , Ron Mokady , Hadar Averbuch-Elor

Interactions between an evolving solid and inviscid flow can result in substantial computational complexity, particularly in circumstances involving varied boundary conditions between the solid and fluid phases. Examples of such…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-09-30 Emma M. Schmidt , J. Matt Quinlan , Brandon Runnels

Immersed boundary methods are high-order accurate computational tools used to model geometrically complex problems in computational mechanics. While traditional finite element methods require the construction of high-quality boundary-fitted…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-02-27 Jennifer E. Fromm , Nils Wunsch , Kurt Maute , John A. Evans , Jiun-Shyan Chen

Inverse problems for Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) are crucial in numerous applications such as geophysics, biomedical imaging, and material science, where unknown physical properties must be inferred from indirect measurements. In…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-12 Dabin Park , Sanghyun Lee , Sunghwan Moon

In this paper we discuss a level set approach for the identification of an unknown boundary in a computational domain. The problem takes the form of a Bernoulli problem where only the Dirichlet datum is known on the boundary that is to be…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-08-25 Erik Burman , Cuiyu He , Mats G. Larson

We present a novel approach to hard-constrain Neumann boundary conditions in physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) using Fourier feature embeddings. Neumann boundary conditions are used to described critical processes in various…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Christopher Straub , Philipp Brendel , Vlad Medvedev , Andreas Rosskopf

We present a novel approach that integrates unfitted finite element methods and neural networks to approximate partial differential equations on complex geometries. Easy-to-generate background meshes (e.g., a simple Cartesian mesh) that cut…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-04 Wei Li , Alberto F. Martín , Santiago Badia

Point clouds are extensively employed in a variety of real-world applications such as robotics, autonomous driving and augmented reality. Despite the recent success of point cloud neural networks, especially for safety-critical tasks, it is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Mert Gulsen , Batuhan Cengiz , Yusuf H. Sahin , Gozde Unal

Finite element modeling of charged species transport has enabled analysis, design, and optimization of a diverse array of electrochemical and electrokinetic devices. These systems are represented by the Poisson-Nernst-Planck equations…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2022-05-13 Sungu Kim , Makrand A. Khanwale , Robbyn K. Anand , Baskar Ganapathysubramanian

Form-finding of unilateral membrane structures is commonly addressed by solving equilibrium equations with Finite Element Methods (FEMs). This paper investigates Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs) as an alternative, where the…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Luigi Sibille , Sigrid Adriaenssens , Carlo Olivieri