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This paper extends the author's previous two-dimensional work with Ou and LeVeque to high-resolution finite volume modeling of systems of fluids and poroelastic media in three dimensions, using logically rectangular mapped grids. A method…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-08-30 Grady I. Lemoine

This work puts forward a form finding problem of designing a least-volume vault that is a surface structure spanning over a plane region, which via pure compression transfers a vertically tracking load to the supporting boundary. Through a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-16 Karol Bołbotowski

We address here the discretization of the momentum convection operator for fluid flow simulations on 2D triangular and quadrangular meshes and 3D polyhedral meshes containing hexahedra, tetrahedra, prisms and pyramids. The finite volume…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-15 Aubin Brunel , Raphaèle Herbin , Jean-Claude Latché

We prove optimal convergence rates for the discretization of a general second-order linear elliptic PDE with an adaptive vertex-centered finite volume scheme. While our prior work Erath and Praetorius [SIAM J. Numer. Anal., 54 (2016), pp.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-07-17 Christoph Erath , Dirk Praetorius

In $\mathbb{R}^3$, the primal and dual constructions yield completely different discrete Laplacians for tetrahedral meshes.In this article, we prove that the discrete Laplacian satisfies the Euler-Lagrange equation of the Dirichlet energy…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-22 Wei-Hung Liao

This paper derives a discrete dual problem for a prototypical hybrid high-order method for convex minimization problems. The discrete primal and dual problem satisfy a weak convex duality that leads to a priori error estimates with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-10 Ngoc Tien Tran

We present a software suite for the analysis and optimization of ideal convex polyhedra in hyperbolic 3-space $\mathbb{H}^3$. Using Rivin's variational characterization of ideal polyhedra, we develop efficient algorithms for checking…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-12-12 Igor Rivin

Matrix-free finite element implementations of massively parallel geometric multigrid save memory and are often significantly faster than implementations using classical sparse matrix techniques. They are especially well suited for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-08-24 Simon Bauer , Marcus Mohr , Ulrich Rüde , Jens Weismüller , Markus Wittmann , Barbara Wohlmuth

Mesh adaptivity is a useful tool for efficient solution to partial differential equations in very complex geometries. In the present paper we discuss the use of polygonal mesh refinement in order to tackle two common issues: first,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-12-21 Stefano Berrone , Alessandro D'Auria

The generation of high-quality staggered unstructured grids is considered, leading to the development of a new optimisation-based strategy designed to construct weighted `Regular-Power' tessellations appropriate for co-volume type numerical…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-09-26 Darren Engwirda

Conforming hexahedral (hex) meshes are favored in simulation for their superior numerical properties, yet automatically decomposing a general 3D volume into a conforming hex mesh remains a formidable challenge. Among existing approaches,…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Hua Tong , Yongjie Jessica Zhang

Meshing complex engineering domains is a challenging task. Arbitrary polyhedral meshes can provide the much needed flexibility in automated discretization of such domains. The geometric property of the polyhedral meshes such as the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-07-22 Arun L. Gain , Glaucio H. Paulino , Leonardo Duarte , Ivan F. M. Menezes

This paper shows that lumped directed-area vectors at edges and dual control volumes required to implement the edge-based discretization can be computed without explicitly defining the dual control volume around each node for triangular and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-04 Hiroaki Nishikawa

Given a sequence of finite element spaces which form a de Rham sequence, we will construct a dual representation of these spaces with associated differential operators which connect these spaces such that they also form a de Rham sequence.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-09-30 Varun Jain , Yi Zhang , Artur Palha , Marc Gerritsma

Despite the rapidly evolving field of computational electromagnetics, few open-source tools have managed to tackle the problem of automatic mesh generation for properly discretizing the problem of interest into a finite set of elements…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-22 Apostolos Spanakis-Misirlis

This paper investigates general and generalized differentiation properties of the optimal value function associated with perturbed optimization problems. Fundamental results on nearly convex sets and functions in infinite-dimensional spaces…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-24 V. S. T. Long , B. S. Mordukhovich , N. M. Nam , L. White

In this paper we introduce three complementary three-dimensional weighted quadratic enrichment strategies to improve the accuracy of local histopolation on tetrahedral meshes. The first combines face and interior weighted moments…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-11 Allal Guessab , Federico Nudo

We introduce a new cell-centered finite volume discretization for elasticity with weakly enforced symmetry of the stress tensor. The method is motivated by the need for robust discretization methods for deformation and flow in porous media,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-12-04 Eirik Keilegavlen , Jan Martin Nordbotten

In recent papers the author introduced a simple alternative to isoparametric finite elements of the n-simplex type, to enhance the accuracy of approximations of second-order boundary value problems with Dirichlet conditions, posed in smooth…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-03-25 Vitoriano Ruas

The finite volume Laplacian can be defined in all dimensions and is a natural way to approximate the operator on a simplicial mesh. In the most general setting, its definition with orthogonal duals may require that not all volumes are…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-08-18 Thomas Doehrman , David Glickenstein