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Parasitic currents still pose a significant challenge for the investigation of two-phase flow in Lab-on-Chip (LoC) applications with Volume-of-Fluid (VoF) simulations. To counter the impact of such spurious velocity fields in the vicinity…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-01-11 Luise Nagel , Anja Lippert , Tobias Tolle , Ronny Leonhardt , Huijie Zhang , Tomislav Maric

Faithfully reconstructing textured shapes and physical properties from videos presents an intriguing yet challenging problem. Significant efforts have been dedicated to advancing such a system identification problem in this area. Previous…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Chuhao Chen , Zhiyang Dou , Chen Wang , Yiming Huang , Anjun Chen , Qiao Feng , Jiatao Gu , Lingjie Liu

Mobile robots operating indoors must be prepared to navigate challenging scenes that contain transparent surfaces. This paper proposes a novel method for the fusion of acoustic and visual sensing modalities through implicit neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Advaith V. Sethuraman , Onur Bagoren , Harikrishnan Seetharaman , Dalton Richardson , Joseph Taylor , Katherine A. Skinner

Crashing ocean waves, cappuccino froths and microfluidic bubble crystals are examples of foamy flows. Foamy flows are critical in numerous natural and industrial processes and remain notoriously difficult to compute as they involve coupled,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-02-04 Petr Karnakov , Sergey Litvinov , Petros Koumoutsakos

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

A new parallelized unsplit geometrical Volume of Fluid (VoF) algorithm with support for arbitrary unstructured meshes and dynamic local Adaptive Mesh Refinement (AMR), as well as for two and three dimensional computation is developed. The…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2013-05-16 Tomislav Maric , Holger Marschall , Dieter Bothe

Man-made environments typically comprise planar structures that exhibit numerous geometric relationships, such as parallelism, coplanarity, and orthogonality. Making full use of these relationships can considerably improve the robustness of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Yangbin Lin , Jialian Li , Cheng Wang , Zhonggui Chen , Zongyue Wang , Jonathan Li

Recently, machine learning has been used to substitute parts of conventional computational fluid dynamics, e.g. the cell-face reconstruction in finite-volume solvers or the curvature computation in the Volume-of-Fluid (VOF) method. The…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-03-14 Aaron B. Buhendwa , Deniz A. Bezgin , Nikolaus Adams

We present a novel method for reconstructing parametric, volumetric, multi-story building models from unstructured, unfiltered indoor point clouds by means of solving an integer linear optimization problem. Our approach overcomes…

Graphics · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Sebastian Ochmann , Richard Vock , Reinhard Klein

We present a novel approach for real-time joint reconstruction of 3D scene motion and geometry from binocular stereo videos. Our approach is based on a novel variational halfway-domain scene flow formulation, which allows us to obtain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-10-25 Lucas Thies , Michael Zollhöfer , Christian Richardt , Christian Theobalt , Günther Greiner

We propose a sharp and conservative 3D numerical method for simulating moving contact lines on complex geometries, developed within a coupled geometric Volume-of-Fluid (VOF) and embedded boundary framework. The first major contribution is a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-12 Chong-Sen Huang , Tian-Yang Han , Jie Zhang , Ming-Jiu Ni

Incremental scene reconstruction is essential to the navigation in robotics. Most of the conventional methods typically make use of either TSDF (truncated signed distance functions) volume or neural networks to implicitly represent the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Shaofan Liu , Junbo Chen , Jianke Zhu

We devise a numerical method for passive advection of a surface, such as the interface between two incompressible fluids, across a computational mesh. The method is called isoAdvector, and is developed for general meshes consisting of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-11-29 Johan Roenby , Henrik Bredmose , Hrvoje Jasak

The paper proposes a physically consistent numerical discretization approach for simulating viscous compressible multicomponent flows. It has two main contributions. First, a contact discontinuity (and material interface) detector is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-07 Amareshwara Sainadh Chamarthi

Geometrical Volume-of-Fluid (VoF) methods mainly support structured meshes, and only a small number of contributions in the scientific literature report results with unstructured meshes and three spatial dimensions. Unstructured meshes are…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-02-07 Tomislav Maric , Douglas B. Kothe , Dieter Bothe

We present a computational framework to address the flow of two immiscible viscous liquids which co-flow into a shallow rectangular container at one side, and flow out into a holding container at the opposite side. Assumptions based on the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2013-09-02 Shahriar Afkhami , Yuriko Renardy

We present a novel numerical method to solve the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations for two-phase flows with phase change, using a one-fluid approach. Separate phases are tracked using a geometric Volume-Of-Fluid (VOF) method with…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-02-03 L. C. Malan , A. G. Malan , S. Zaleski , P. G. Rousseau

Available algorithms for the initialization of volume fractions typically utilize exact functions to model fluid interfaces, or they rely on computationally costly intersections between volume meshes. Here, a new algorithm is proposed that…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-02-07 Tobias Tolle , Dirk Gründing , Dieter Bothe , Tomislav Marić

A novel fifth-order compact gas-kinetic scheme is developed for high-resolution simulation of compressible flows on structured meshes. Its accuracy relies on a new multidimensional fifth-order compact reconstruction that uses line-averaged…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-13 Yaqing Yang , Fengxiang Zhao , Kun Xu

Inverse boundary value problems for the radiative transport equation play important roles in optics-based medical imaging techniques such as diffuse optical tomography (DOT) and fluorescence optical tomography (FOT). Despite the rapid…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-19 Tian Ding , Kui Ren