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The Finite element method (FEM) has long served as the computational backbone for topology optimization (TO). However, for designing structures undergoing large deformations, conventional FEM-based TO often exhibits numerical instabilities…

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We use conformal maps to study a free boundary problem for a two-fluid electromechanical system, where the interface between the fluids is determined by the combined effects of electrostatic forces, gravity and surface tension. The free…

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This work considers gradient-based mesh optimization, where we iteratively optimize for a 3D surface mesh by representing it as the isosurface of a scalar field, an increasingly common paradigm in applications including photogrammetry,…

We demonstrate optimization of optical metasurfaces over $10^5$--$10^6$ degrees of freedom in two and three dimensions, 100--1000+ wavelengths ($\lambda$) in diameter, with 100+ parameters per $\lambda^2$. In particular, we show how…

Optics · Physics 2019-06-26 Zin Lin , Victor Liu , Raphaël Pestourie , Steven G. Johnson

A variational framework, initially developed for high-order mesh optimisation, is being extended for r-adaptation. The method is based on the minimisation of a functional of the mesh deformation. To achieve adaptation, elements of the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-01-07 Julian Marcon , Michael Turner , David Moxey , Spencer J. Sherwin , Joaquim Peiró

In this paper, we present a surface remeshing method with high approximation quality based on Principal Component Analysis. Given a triangular mesh and a user assigned polygon/vertex budget, traditional methods usually require the extra…

Graphics · Computer Science 2018-04-10 Yiqi Cai , Xiaohu Guo , Yang Liu , Wenping Wang , Weihua Mao , Zichun Zhong

We present a novel isogeometric method, namely the Immersed Boundary-Conformal Method (IBCM), that features a layer of discretization conformal to the boundary while employing a simple background mesh for the remaining domain. In this…

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Density-based topology optimization methods such as SIMP enable efficient topological exploration but produce diffuse material boundaries that require interpretation before manufacturing. Level-set methods maintain sharp interfaces but are…

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Tube-like surfaces are widely encountered in geometry processing, engineering structures, and medical anatomy, yet their intrinsic longitudinal and circumferential topology is not well preserved by conventional planar annular or rectangular…

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This paper proposes a novel method for high-quality image segmentation of both objects and scenes. Inspired by the dilation and erosion operations in morphological image processing techniques, the pixel-level image segmentation problems are…

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We propose a two-level structural optimization method for obtaining an approximate optimal shape of piecewise developable surface without specifying internal boundaries between surface patches. The condition for developability of a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-22 Makoto Ohsaki , Kentaro Hayakawa , Jingyao Zhang

A finite element method for elliptic problems with discontinuous coefficients is presented. The discontinuity is assumed to take place along a closed smooth curve. The proposed method allows to deal with meshes that are not adapted to the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2007-07-12 Gunther H. Peichl , Rachid Touzani

Coordinate-based neural networks parameterizing implicit surfaces have emerged as efficient representations of geometry. They effectively act as parametric level sets with the zero-level set defining the surface of interest. We present a…

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Triangular meshes are the most popular representations of 3D objects, but many mesh surfaces contain topological singularities that represent a challenge for displaying or further processing them properly. One such singularity is the…

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Surfaces are typically represented as meshes, which can be extracted from volumetric fields via meshing or optimized directly as surface parameterizations. Volumetric representations occupy 3D space and have a large effective receptive…

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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…

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The isometric embedding of surfaces in three-dimensional space is fundamental to various physical systems, from elastic sheets to programmable materials. While continuous surfaces typically admit unique solutions under suitable boundary…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-05-13 Kyungeun Kim , Christian D. Santangelo

We propose a general algorithm for non-conforming adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) of unstructured meshes in high-order finite element codes. Our focus is on h-refinement with a fixed polynomial order. The algorithm handles triangular,…

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We present higher-order piecewise continuous finite element methods for solving a class of interface problems in two dimensions. The method is based on correction terms added to the right-hand side in the standard variational formulation of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-05-19 Johnny Guzman , Manuel A. Sanchez , Marcus Sarkis

One of the major issues in the computational mechanics is to take into account the geometrical complexity. To overcome this difficulty and to avoid the expensive mesh generation, geometrically unfitted methods, i.e. the numerical methods…

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