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We present a hybrid method combining a minimizing movement scheme with neural operators for the simulation of phase field-based Willmore flow. The minimizing movement component is based on a standard optimization problem on a regular grid…

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This work considers a Motion Planning Problem with Dynamic Obstacles (MPDO) in 2D that requires finding a minimum-arrival-time collision-free trajectory for a point robot between its start and goal locations amid dynamic obstacles moving…

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Surface parametrization is a crucial part in various fields, having applications in computer graphic, medical imaging, scientific computing and computational engineering. The majority of surface parametrization approaches are performed on…

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Topology optimization methods have widely been used in various industries, owing to their potential for providing promising design candidates for mechanical devices. However, their applications are usually limited to the objects which do…

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Functions with jumps and kinks typically arising from parameter dependent or stochastic hyperbolic PDEs are notoriously difficult to approximate. If the jump location in physical space is parameter dependent or random, standard…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-05-07 G. Welper

This paper is concerned with the numerical minimization of energy functionals in Hilbert spaces involving convex constraints coinciding with a semi-norm for a subspace. The optimization is realized by alternating minimizations of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2007-12-17 Massimo Fornasier , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

In this work, we derive particle schemes, based on micro-macro decomposition, for linear kinetic equations in the diffusion limit. Due to the particle approximation of the micro part, a splitting between the transport and the collision part…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-01-19 Anaïs Crestetto , Nicolas Crouseilles , Mohammed Lemou

We study the momentum-based minimization of a diffuse perimeter functional on Euclidean spaces and on graphs with applications to semi-supervised classification tasks in machine learning. While the gradient flow in the task at hand is a…

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This paper deals with finding surfaces in $\mathbb{R}^3$ which are as close as possible to being flat and span a given contour such that the contour is a geodesic on the sought surface. We look for a surface which minimizes the total…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-07-30 Tom Gilat

We present a novel shape-approximating anisotropic re-meshing algorithm as a geometric generalization of the adaptive moving mesh method. Conventional moving mesh methods reduce the interpolation error of a mesh that discretizes a given…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Nicolas Nebel , Albert Chern

An evolving surface finite element discretisation is analysed for the evolution of a closed two-dimensional surface governed by a system coupling a generalised forced mean curvature flow and a reaction--diffusion process on the surface,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-06-06 Charles M. Elliott , Harald Garcke , Balázs Kovács

We derive novel algorithms for optimization problems constrained by partial differential equations describing multiscale particle dynamics, including non-local integral terms representing interactions between particles. In particular, we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-09 Mildred Aduamoah , Benjamin D. Goddard , John W. Pearson , Jonna C. Roden

The aim of the paper is to show algorithms for geometrical manipulations on NURBS surfaces. These include generating NURBS surfaces that pass through given points, calculating the minimum distance to a point and include line to surface and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-25 Gernot Beer

A unifying moving mesh method is developed for general $m$-dimensional geometric objects in $d$-dimensions ($d \ge 1$ and $1\le m \le d$) including curves, surfaces, and domains. The method is based on mesh equidistribution and alignment…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-07 Min Zhang , Weizhang Huang

Maps from a source manifold $ {\mathcal M}$ to a target manifold ${\mathcal N}$ appear in liquid crystals, colour image enhancement, texture mapping, brain mapping, and many other areas. A numerical framework to solve variational problems…

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This paper surveys recent numerical advances in the phase field method for geometric surface evolution and related geometric nonlinear partial differential equations (PDEs). Instead of describing technical details of various numerical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-04-24 Qiang Du , Xiaobing Feng

Submodular function minimization is a fundamental optimization problem that arises in several applications in machine learning and computer vision. The problem is known to be solvable in polynomial time, but general purpose algorithms have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-02-10 Alina Ene , Huy L. Nguyen

The proximal point algorithm, which is a well-known tool for finding minima of convex functions, is generalized from the classical Hilbert space framework into a nonlinear setting, namely, geodesic metric spaces of nonpositive curvature. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-07-02 Miroslav Bacak

We provide a probabilistic approach to studying minimal surfaces in three-dimensional Euclidean space. Following a discussion of the basic relationship between Brownian motion on a surface and minimality of the surface, we introduce a way…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-01-20 Robert W. Neel

Immersed boundary methods are extensively used for simulations of dynamic solid objects interacting with fluids due to their computational efficiency and modelling flexibility compared to body-fitted grid methods. However, thin geometries,…

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