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Nonlinear partial differential equations (PDEs) are used to model dynamical processes in a large number of scientific fields, ranging from finance to biology. In many applications standard local models are not sufficient to accurately…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-05-10 Victor Boussange , Sebastian Becker , Arnulf Jentzen , Benno Kuckuck , Loïc Pellissier

We discuss a method of parameter reduction in complex models known as the Manifold Boundary Approximation Method (MBAM). This approach, based on a geometric interpretation of statistics, maps the model reduction problem to a geometric…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2016-05-30 Mark K. Transtrum

In this paper we present a high-order kernel method for numerically solving diffusion and reaction-diffusion partial differential equations (PDEs) on smooth, closed surfaces embedded in $\mathbb{R}^d$. For two-dimensional surfaces embedded…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-06-04 Edward J. Fuselier , Grady B. Wright

One of the oldest and most studied subject in scientific computing is algorithms for solving partial differential equations (PDEs). A long list of numerical methods have been proposed and successfully used for various applications. In…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-07-28 Jingrun Chen , Xurong Chi , Weinan E , Zhouwang Yang

Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs) solve partial differential equations (PDEs) by embedding governing equations and boundary/initial conditions into the loss function. However, enforcing Dirichlet boundary conditions accurately…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Nahil Sobh , Rini Jasmine Gladstone , Hadi Meidani

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 extend the class of kernel methods, the so-called diffusion maps (DM), and its local kernel variants, to approximate second-order differential operators defined on smooth manifolds with boundaries that naturally arise in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-18 Shixiao W. Jiang , John Harlim

Defined mathematically as critical points of surface area subject to a volume constraint, constant mean curvatures (CMC) surfaces are idealizations of interfaces occurring between two immiscible fluids. Their behavior elucidates phenomena…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-08-07 Nicholas D. Brubaker

This work presents a generalized boundary integral method for elliptic equations on surfaces, encompassing both boundary value and interface problems. The method is kernel-free, implying that the explicit analytical expression of the kernel…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-25 Pengsong Yin , Wenjun YIng , Yulin Zhang , Han Zhou

We consider the proximal gradient method on Riemannian manifolds for functions that are possibly not geodesically convex. Starting from the forward-backward-splitting, we define an intrinsic variant of the proximal gradient method that uses…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-12 Ronny Bergmann , Hajg Jasa , Paula John , Max Pfeffer

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-08-04 Xiaodong Wei , Benjamin Marussig , Pablo Antolin , Annalisa Buffa

High-order partial differential equations (PDEs) require derivative regularity that standard $C^0$ finite element infrastructures do not directly provide on unstructured meshes. We propose a mesh-intrinsic generalized finite element method…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Rong Tian

The Immersed Boundary method is a simple, efficient, and robust numerical scheme for solving PDE in general domains, yet it only achieves first-order spatial accuracy near embedded boundaries. In this paper, we introduce a new high-order…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-09-14 David B. Stein , Robert D. Guy , Becca Thomases

Since their advent nearly a decade ago, physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) have been studied extensively as a novel technique for solving forward and inverse problems in physics and engineering. The neural network discretization of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-18 Conor Rowan , Kai Hampleman , Kurt Maute , Alireza Doostan

Embedded boundary methods alleviate many computational challenges, including those associated with meshing complex geometries and solving problems with evolving domains and interfaces. Developing model reduction methods for computational…

Computational Physics · Physics 2014-07-09 Maciej Balajewicz , Charbel Farhat

In this paper we combine an infeasible Interior Point Method (IPM) with the Proximal Method of Multipliers (PMM). The resulting algorithm (IP-PMM) is interpreted as a primal-dual regularized IPM, suitable for solving linearly constrained…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-01 Spyridon Pougkakiotis , Jacek Gondzio

Many problems in science and engineering can be represented by a set of partial differential equations (PDEs) through mathematical modeling. Mechanism-based computation following PDEs has long been an essential paradigm for studying topics…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-21 Shudong Huang , Wentao Feng , Chenwei Tang , Jiancheng Lv

This paper explores the embedding of lattice structures $L \subseteq \mathbb{R}^n$ into smooth manifolds $M \subseteq \mathbb{R}^n$ through a rigorous mathematical framework. Building upon the foundational results established in "Embedding…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-02 Francesco D'Agostino

We introduce a manifold-based framework for addressing optimization problems with equality and inequality constraints found in robotics. Our approach transforms the original problem into an unconstrained optimization problem directly on the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Yetong Zhang , Frank Dellaert

The Continuous p-Dispersion Problem (CpDP) with boundary constraints asks for the placement of a fixed number of points in a compact subset of Euclidean space such that the minimum distance between any two points, as well as the points and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-02 Sanjay Manoj , Melkior Ornik