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Non-Uniform Rational B-Spline (NURBS) surfaces are commonly used within Computer-Aided Design (CAD) tools to represent geometric objects. When using isogeometric analysis (IGA), it is possible to use such NURBS geometries for numerical…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Michel Make , Thomas Spenke , Norbert Hosters , Marek Behr

We develop and analyze a B-spline based arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian method of fundamental solutions (ALE-MFS) for curvature-driven motion of two-dimensional evolving domains. Boundary points move with the material to track the geometric…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-19 Muhammad Ammad , Leevan Ling , Shu Ma

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…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Ruiqi Zhang , Jiacheng Wu , Jie Chen

Skinning is a popular way to rig and deform characters for animation, to compute reduced-order simulations, and to define features for geometry processing. Methods built on skinning rely on weight functions that distribute the influence of…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Ana Dodik , Vincent Sitzmann , Justin Solomon , Oded Stein

This work introduces a scaffolding framework to compactly parametrise solid structures with conforming NURBS elements for isogeometric analysis. A novel formulation introduces a topological, geometrical and parametric subdivision of the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-06-10 Stefano Moriconi , Parashkev Nachev , Sebastien Ourselin , M. Jorge Cardoso

We introduce a space-filling curve for triangular and tetrahedral red-refinement that can be computed using bitwise interleaving operations similar to the well-known Z-order or Morton curve for cubical meshes. To store sufficient…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-04-24 Carsten Burstedde , Johannes Holke

Generative models have attracted considerable attention for their ability to produce novel shapes. However, their application in mechanical design remains constrained due to the limited size and variability of available datasets. This study…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Yongmin Kwon , Namwoo Kang

We present an elastic simulator for domains defined as evolving implicit functions, which is efficient, robust, and differentiable with respect to both shape and material. This simulator is motivated by applications in 3D reconstruction: it…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Gilles Daviet , Tianchang Shen , Nicholas Sharp , David I. W. Levin

Textured 3D meshes jointly represent geometry, topology, and appearance, yet their irregular structure poses significant challenges for deep-learning-based semantic segmentation. While a few recent methods operate directly on meshes without…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Mohammadreza Heidarianbaei , Max Mehltretter , Franz Rottensteiner

Structural optimization (topology, shapes, sizing) is an important tool for facilitating the emergence of new concepts in structural design. Normally, topology optimization is carried out at the early stage of design and then shape and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-16 Ghislain Raze , Joseph Morlier

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…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-06-22 K. Sfikas , P. Perakis , T. Theoharis

This work introduces an Adaptive Mesh Refinement (AMR) strategy for the topology optimization of structures made of discrete geometric components using the geometry projection method. Practical structures made of geometric shapes such as…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-04-22 Shanglong Zhang , Arun L. Gain , Julian A. Norato

Computational analysis with the finite element method requires geometrically accurate meshes. It is well known that high-order meshes can accurately capture curved surfaces with fewer degrees of freedom in comparison to low-order meshes.…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Ketan Mittal , Veselin A. Dobrev , Patrick Knupp , Tzanio Kolev , Franck Ledoux , Claire Roche , Vladimir Z. Tomov

For explicit interface tracking in three dimensions, we propose a linear MARS method that (a) represents the interface by a partially ordered set of glued surfaces and approximates each glued surface with a triangular mesh, (b) maintains an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-12 Yunhao Qiu , Qinghai Zhang

The development of materials with specific structural properties is of huge practical interest, for example, for medical applications or for the development of light weight structures in aeronautics. In this article, we combine shape…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-01 Helmut Harbrecht , Michael Multerer , Remo von Rickenbach

In this paper, a third-order compact gas-kinetic scheme (GKS) on unstructured tetrahedral mesh is constructed for the compressible Euler and Navier-Stokes solutions. The time-dependent gas distribution function at a cell interface is used…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-02-03 Xing Ji , Fengxiang Zhao , Wei Shyy , Kun Xu

Electromagnetic simulations of complex geologic settings are computationally expensive. One reason for this is the fact that a fine mesh is required to accurately discretize the electrical conductivity model of a given setting. This…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-29 Luz Angelica Caudillo-Mata , Eldad Haber , Lindsey J. Heagy , Christoph Schwarzbach

This paper develops a computational framework with unfitted meshes to solve linear piezoelectricity and flexoelectricity electromechanical boundary value problems including strain gradient elasticity at infinitesimal strains. The high-order…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-10-08 David Codony , Onofre Marco , Sonia Fernández-Méndez , Irene Arias

A self-adaptive moving mesh method is proposed for the numerical simulations of the Camassa-Holm equation. It is an integrable scheme in the sense that it possesses the exact N-soliton solution. It is named a self-adaptive moving mesh…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2010-04-27 Bao-Feng Feng , Ken-ichi Maruno , Yasuhiro Ohta

Effectively parsing the facade is essential to 3D building reconstruction, which is an important computer vision problem with a large amount of applications in high precision map for navigation, computer aided design, and city generation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-03 Hantang Liu , Wentong Li , Jianke Zhu