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A domain decomposition method for the solution of general variable-coefficient elliptic partial differential equations on regular domains is introduced. The method is based on tessellating the domain into overlapping thin slabs or shells,…

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In this paper, we introduce the hierarchical B-spline complex of discrete differential forms for arbitrary spatial dimension. This complex may be applied to the adaptive isogeometric solution of problems arising in electromagnetics and…

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A gradient-based method for shape optimization problems constrained by the acoustic wave equation is presented. The method makes use of high-order accurate finite differences with summation-by-parts properties on multiblock curvilinear…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-05-09 Gustav Eriksson , Vidar Stiernström

When modeling scientific and industrial problems, geometries are typically modeled by explicit boundary representations obtained from computer-aided design software. Unfitted (also known as embedded or immersed) finite element methods offer…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Pere A. Martorell , Santiago Badia

In the last decade, parameter-free approaches to shape optimization problems have matured to a state where they provide a versatile tool for complex engineering applications. However, sensitivity distributions obtained from shape…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Lars Radtke , Georgios Bletsos , Niklas Kühl , Tim Suchan , Thomas Rung , Alexander Düster , Kathrin Welker

In this work, we present a novel approach for solving stochastic shape optimization problems. Our method is the extension of the classical stochastic gradient method to infinite-dimensional shape manifolds. We prove convergence of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-03 Caroline Geiersbach , Estefania Loayza-Romero , Kathrin Welker

This paper presents a PDE-based planar parameterization framework with support for Truncated Hierarchical B-Splines (THB-splines). For this, we adopt the a posteriori refinement strategy of Dual Weighted Residual and present several…

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Single-view 3D shape reconstruction is an important but challenging problem, mainly for two reasons. First, as shape annotation is very expensive to acquire, current methods rely on synthetic data, in which ground-truth 3D annotation is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Pedro O. Pinheiro , Negar Rostamzadeh , Sungjin Ahn

This paper sets up an approach for shape optimization problems constrained by variational inequalities (VI) in an appropriate shape space. In contrast to classical VI, where no explicit dependence on the domain is given, VI constrained…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-12 Tim Suchan , Volker Schulz , Kathrin Welker

The paper describes a sparse direct solver for the linear systems that arise from the discretization of an elliptic PDE on a two dimensional domain. The scheme decomposes the domain into thin subdomains, or ``slabs'' and uses a two-level…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-01 Anna Yesypenko , Per-Gunnar Martinsson

This paper proposes a novel paradigm for machine learning that moves beyond traditional parameter optimization. Unlike conventional approaches that search for optimal parameters within a fixed geometric space, our core idea is to treat the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Di Zhang

Local modifications of a computational domain are often performed in order to simplify the meshing process and to reduce computational costs and memory requirements. However, removing geometrical features of a domain often introduces a…

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This paper concerns with iterative schemes for the perfect reconstruction of functions belonging to multiresolution spaces on bounded manifolds from nonuniform sampling. The schemes have optimal complexity in the sense that the…

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Shape optimization methods have been proven useful for identifying interfaces in models governed by partial differential equations. Here we consider a class of shape optimization problems constrained by nonlocal equations which involve…

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In this work, we consider methods for solving large-scale optimization problems with a possibly nonsmooth objective function. The key idea is to first specify a class of optimization algorithms using a generic iterative scheme involving…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-02-19 Sebastian Banert , Axel Ringh , Jonas Adler , Johan Karlsson , Ozan Öktem

In this paper we investigate the influence of the discretization of PDE constraints on shape and topological derivatives. To this end, we study a tracking-type functional and a two-material Poisson problem in one spatial dimension. We…

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We investigate a fixed domain approach in shape optimization, using a regularization of the Heaviside function both in the cost functional and in the state system. We consider the compliance minimization problem in linear elasticity, a well…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-04-07 Cornel Marius Murea , Dan Tiba

In this paper we investigate an adaptive discretization strategy for ill-posed linear prob- lems combined with a regularization from a class of semiiterative methods. We show that such a discretization approach in combination with a…

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A rigorous mathematical framework is provided for a substructuring-based domain-decomposition approach for nonlocal problems that feature interactions between points separated by a finite distance. Here, by substructuring it is meant that a…

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