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The level set method is a widely used tool for solving reachability and invariance problems. However, some shortcomings, such as the difficulties of handling dissipation function and constructing terminal conditions for solving the…

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We focus on a geometrical inverse problem that involves recovering discontinuities in electrical conductivity based on boundary measurements. This problem serves as a model to introduce a shape recovery technique that merges the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-28 Bastian Harrach , Houcine Meftahi

In this work, a numerical scheme based on a level-set immersed boundary method is employed for the numerical simulation of the flow around two tandem circular cylinders in the subcritical flow regimes. Three different spacing ratios…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-06-07 Radouan Boukharfane

It is well-known that the standard level set advection equation does not preserve the signed distance property, which is a desirable property for the level set function representing a moving interface. Therefore, reinitialization or…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-03-08 Mathis Fricke , Tomislav Marić , Aleksandar Vučković , Ilia Roisman , Dieter Bothe

A simulation framework based on the level-set and the immersed boundary methods (LS-IBM) has been developed for reactive transport problems in porous media involving a moving solid-fluid interface. The interface movement due to surface…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-04-13 Mehrdad Yousefzadeh , Yinuo Yao , Ilenia Battiato

The linear transport equation allows to advect level-set functions to represent moving sharp interfaces in multiphase flows as zero level-sets. A recent development in computational fluid dynamics is to modify the linear transport equation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-12-24 Dieter Bothe , Mathis Fricke , Kohei Soga

This paper provides an extended level set (X-LS) based topology optimiza- tion method for multi material design. In the proposed method, each zero level set of a level set function {\phi}ij represents the boundary between materials i and j.…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2022-03-10 Masaki Noda , Yuki Noguchi , Takayuki Yamada

We present a strategy for the numerical solution of convection-coupled phase-transition problems, with focus on solidification and melting. We solve for the temperature and flow fields over time. The position of the phase-change interface…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-28 Leonardo Boledi , Benjamin Terschanski , Stefanie Elgeti , Julia Kowalski

Global placement is a critical step with high computational complexity in VLSI physical design. Modern analytical placers formulate the placement problem as a nonlinear optimization, where initialization strongly affects both convergence…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-14 Yuhao Ren , Yiting Liu , Yanfei Zhou , Zhiyu Zheng , Li Shang , Fan Yang , Zhiang Wang

In this letter, we present a closed-form initialization method that recovers the full visual-inertial state without nonlinear optimization. Unlike previous approaches that rely on iterative solvers, our formulation yields analytical,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Samuel Cerezo , Seong Hun Lee , Javier Civera

Recent efforts to accelerate first-order methods have focused on convex optimization problems that satisfy a geometric property known as error-bound condition, which covers a broad class of problems, including piece-wise linear programs and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-16 Qihang Lin , Negar Soheili , Runchao Ma , Selvaprabu Nadarajah

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…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Ondřej Ježek , Ján Kopačka , Martin Isoz , Dušan Gabriel

Level set-based immersed boundary techniques operate on nonconforming meshes while providing a crisp definition of interface and external boundaries. In such techniques, an isocontour of a level set field interpolated from nodal level set…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Jorge L. Barrera , Kurt Maute

In the context of unfitted finite element discretizations the realization of high order methods is challenging due to the fact that the geometry approximation has to be sufficiently accurate. Recently a new unfitted finite element method…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-09-01 Christoph Lehrenfeld , Arnold Reusken

A novel coupled level-set lattice Boltzmann method on adaptive Cartesian grids for simulating liquid-gas multiphase flows is presented. The approach addresses the inherent challenges of accurately modeling multiphase systems characterized…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-12 Julian Vorspohl , Yuxing Peng , Matthias Meinke , Dominik Krug , Wolfgang Schröder

This paper presents a finite volume method for simulating two-phase flows using a level set approach coupled with volume of fluid method capable of simulating sharp fluid interfaces. The efficiency of the method is a result of the fact that…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-07-20 Konstantinos G. Lyras , Jack Lee

Simulations of immiscible flows involving surface tension (ST) require a robust high-fidelity framework. State-of-the-art multi-phase models, such as the Conservative Level-Set (CLS) approach, rely on Eulerian representations of the fluids…

We introduce and analyze a lower envelope method (LEM) for the tracking of interfaces motion in multiphase problems. The main idea of the method is to define the phases as the regions where the lower envelope of a set of functions coincides…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-12-07 Antoine Laurain

Convex optimization problems arising in applications often have favorable objective functions and complicated constraints, thereby precluding first-order methods from being immediately applicable. We describe an approach that exchanges the…

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