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Capturing the interaction between objects that have an extreme difference in Young s modulus or geometrical scale is a highly challenging topic for numerical simulation. One of the fundamental questions is how to build an accurate…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2019-10-01 Yupeng Jiang , Minchen Li , Chenfanfu Jiang , Fernando Alonso-marroquin

Point discretization of curved surfaces is required in many applications ranging from object rendering to the solution of surface partial differential equations (PDEs). These applications often impose that surfaces are sampled with local…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Lennart J. Schulze , Ivo F. Sbalzarini

The present work illustrates a difficulty with the level-set method to accurately capture the curvature of interfaces in regions that are of equal distance to two or more interfaces. Such regions are characterized by kinks in the level-set…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-09-24 Karl Yngve Lervåg , Åsmund Ervik

Interactive segmentation aims to precisely isolate target objects using sparse user guidance. However, traditional methods often suffer from heavy interaction burdens and parameter sensitivity, while deep learning approaches struggle with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Jiachen Song , Dazhi Zhang , Fanghui Song , Zhichang Guo , Shengzhu Shi

Finite difference/element/volume methods of discretising PDEs impose a subgrid scale interpolation on the dynamics. In contrast, the holistic discretisation approach developed herein constructs a natural subgrid scale field adapted to the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-02-04 G. A. Jarrad , A. J. Roberts

The large time and length scales and, not least, the vast number of particles involved in industrial-scale simulations inflate the computational costs of the Discrete Element Method (DEM) excessively. Coarse grain models can help to lower…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-05-11 Daniel Queteschiner , Thomas Lichtenegger , Simon Schneiderbauer , Stefan Pirker

We study multilevel techniques, commonly used in PDE multigrid literature, to solve structured optimization problems. For a given hierarchy of levels, we formulate a coarse model that approximates the problem at each level and provides a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-19 Ferdinand Vanmaele , Yara Elshiaty , Stefania Petra

The present work aims at the application of finite element discretizations to a class of equilibrium problems involving moving constraints. Therefore, a Moreau--Yosida based regularization technique, controlled by a parameter, is discussed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-10-07 Steven-Marian Stengl

A robust numerical methodology to predict equilibrium interfaces over arbitrary solid surfaces is developed. The kernel of the proposed method is the distance regularized level set equations (DRLSE) with techniques to incorporate the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-12-24 Karim Alamé , Sreevatsa Anantharamu , Krishnan Mahesh

Recent research on accelerated gradient methods of use in optimization has demonstrated that these methods can be derived as discretizations of dynamical systems. This, in turn, has provided a basis for more systematic investigations,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-18 Alessandro Bravetti , Maria L. Daza-Torres , Hugo Flores-Arguedas , Michael Betancourt

We present a new discretization method for homogeneous convection-diffusion-reaction boundary value problems in 3D that is a non-standard finite element method with PDE-harmonic shape functions on polyhedral elements. The element stiffness…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-08-29 Clemens Hofreither , Ulrich Langer , Steffen Weißer

Granular impact -- the dynamic intrusion of solid objects into granular media -- is widespread across scientific and engineering applications including geotechnics. Existing approaches for simulating granular impact dynamics have relied on…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-11-24 Yupeng Jiang , Yidong Zhao , Clarence E. Choi , Jinhyun Choo

Decentralized optimization is a powerful paradigm that finds applications in engineering and learning design. This work studies decentralized composite optimization problems with non-smooth regularization terms. Most existing gradient-based…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-10-29 Sulaiman A. Alghunaim , Kun Yuan , Ali H. Sayed

The discrete element method (DEM) is a powerful tool for simulating granular soils, but its high computational demand often results in extended simulation times. While the effect of particle size has been extensively studied, the potential…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-01-10 Markus Pogulis , Martin Servin

We compute time-dependent solutions of the sharp-interface model of dendritic solidification in two dimensions by using a level set method. The steady-state results are in agreement with solvability theory. Solutions obtained from the level…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-31 Yung-Tae Kim , Nigel Goldenfeld , Jonathan Dantzig

Gradient, chemically modified, flat surfaces enable directed transport of droplets. Calculation of apparent contact angles inherent for gradient surfaces is challenging even for atomically flat ones. Wetting of gradient, flat solid surfaces…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-01-16 Edward Bormashenko

We present a novel framework for PDE-constrained $r$-adaptivity of high-order meshes. The proposed method formulates mesh movement as an optimization problem, with an objective function defined as a convex combination of a mesh quality…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-03 Tzanio Kolev , Boyan Lazarov , Ketan Mittal , Mathias Schmidt , Vladimir Tomov

We present some results of geometric convergence of level sets for solutions of total variation denoising as the regularization parameter tends to zero. The common feature among them is that they make use of explicit constructions of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-24 José A. Iglesias , Gwenael Mercier

A new higher-order accurate method is proposed that combines the advantages of the classical $p$-version of the FEM on body-fitted meshes with embedded domain methods. A background mesh composed by higher-order Lagrange elements is used.…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2016-04-04 Samir Omerović , Thomas-Peter Fries

In this paper, the convergence of the solutions for a discretized linear state-based static peridynamic system to the corresponding continuous solution is analytically proven. To obtain an implementable model, we further apply…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-04 Lukas Pflug , Michael Stingl , Max Zetzmann