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This work develops a computational framework that combines physics-informed neural networks with multi-patch isogeometric analysis to solve partial differential equations on complex computer-aided design geometries. The method utilizes…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Moritz von Tresckow , Ion Gabriel Ion , Dimitrios Loukrezis

Conservation laws, in for example, electromagnetism, solid and fluid mechanics, allow an exact discrete representation in terms of line, surface and volume integrals. We develop high order interpolants, from any basis that is a partition of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-09-11 R. R. Hiemstra , R. H. M. Huijsmans , M. I. Gerritsma

This paper introduces a new approach based on a coupled representation and a neural volume optimization to implicitly perform 3D shape editing in latent space. This work has three innovations. First, we design the coupled neural shape (CNS)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Jingyu Hu , Ka-Hei Hui , Zhengzhe Liu , Hao Zhang , Chi-Wing Fu

High-order implicit shock tracking (fitting) is a class of high-order, optimization-based numerical methods to approximate solutions of conservation laws with non-smooth features by aligning elements of the computational mesh with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-04-25 Tianci Huang , Charles Naudet , Matthew J. Zahr

We combine theory and experiments to explore the kinematics and actuation of intrinsically curved folds (ICFs) in otherwise developable shells. Unlike origami folds, ICFs are not bending isometries of flat sheets, but arise via…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-09-06 Fan Feng , Klaudia Dradrach , Michał Zmyślony , Morgan Barnes , John S. Biggins

Topology optimization is concerned with the identification of optimal shapes of deformable bodies with respect to given target functionals. The focus of this paper is on a topology optimization problem for a time-evolving elastoplastic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-06-21 Stefano Almi , Ulisse Stefanelli

This paper proposes an effective computational tool for brittle crack propagation problems based on a combination of a higher-order phase-field model and a non-conforming mesh using a NURBS-based isogeometric approach. This combination, as…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2022-12-15 Khuong D. Nguyen , Charles E. Augarde , William M. Coombs , H. Nguyen-Xuan , M. Abdel-Wahab

We propose a novel 3D shape correspondence method based on the iterative alignment of so-called smooth shells. Smooth shells define a series of coarse-to-fine shape approximations designed to work well with multiscale algorithms. The main…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Marvin Eisenberger , Zorah Lähner , Daniel Cremers

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

Shape implicit neural representations (INRs) have recently shown to be effective in shape analysis and reconstruction tasks. Existing INRs require point coordinates to learn the implicit level sets of the shape. When a normal vector is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Yizhak Ben-Shabat , Chamin Hewa Koneputugodage , Stephen Gould

Generating realistic intermediate shapes between non-rigidly deformed shapes is a challenging task in computer vision, especially with unstructured data (e.g., point clouds) where temporal consistency across frames is lacking, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Lu Sang , Zehranaz Canfes , Dongliang Cao , Riccardo Marin , Florian Bernard , Daniel Cremers

A two-dimensional tomographic problem is studied. The target is assumed to be a homogeneous object bounded by a smooth curve. A Non Uniform Rational Basis Splines (NURBS) curve is used as computational representation of the boundary. This…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-08-08 Heikki Haario , Aki Kallonen , Marko Laine , Esa Niemi , Zenith Purisha , Samuli Siltanen

Inclusion of contact in mechanical designs opens a large range of design possibilities, this includes classical designs with contact, such as gears, couplings, switches, clamps etc. However, incorporation of contact in topology optimization…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-05-12 Andreas Henrik Frederiksen , Ole Sigmund , Konstantinos Poulios

Topology optimization is a powerful tool utilized in various fields for structural design. However, its application has primarily been restricted to static or passively moving objects, mainly focusing on hard materials with limited…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-06-30 Changyoung Yuhn , Yuki Sato , Hiroki Kobayashi , Atsushi Kawamoto , Tsuyoshi Nomura

This paper presents a novel method for reformulating non-differentiable collision avoidance constraints into smooth nonlinear constraints using strong duality of convex optimization. We focus on a controlled object whose goal is to avoid…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-06-12 Xiaojing Zhang , Alexander Liniger , Francesco Borrelli

In a recent work, we analyzed a weighted-residual error estimator for isogeometric boundary element methods in 2D and proposed an adaptive algorithm which steers the local mesh-refinement of the underlying partition as well as the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-06-13 Michael Feischl , Gregor Gantner , Alexander Haberl , Dirk Praetorius

We propose an optimisation method for the inverse structural design of self-assembly of anisotropic patchy particles. The anisotropic interaction can be expressed by the spherical harmonics of the surface pattern on a patchy particle, and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-02-21 Uyen Tu Lieu , Natsuhiko Yoshinaga

We present an isogeometric analysis technique that builds on manifold-based smooth basis functions for geometric modelling and analysis. Manifold-based surface construction techniques are well known in geometric modelling and a number of…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2017-04-05 Musabbir Majeed , Fehmi Cirak

This work considers gradient-based mesh optimization, where we iteratively optimize for a 3D surface mesh by representing it as the isosurface of a scalar field, an increasingly common paradigm in applications including photogrammetry,…

Finding correspondences between shapes is a fundamental problem in computer vision and graphics, which is relevant for many applications, including 3D reconstruction, object tracking, and style transfer. The vast majority of correspondence…

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