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Discrete exterior calculus (DEC) is a framework for constructing discrete versions of exterior differential calculus objects, and is widely used in computer graphics, computational topology, and discretizations of the Hodge-Laplace operator…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-01 Erick Schulz , Gantumur Tsogtgerel

Discrete exterior calculus (DEC) is a structure-preserving numerical framework for partial differential equations solution, particularly suitable for simplicial meshes. A longstanding and widespread assumption has been that DEC requires…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-02-14 Mamdouh S. Mohamed , Anil N. Hirani , Ravi Samtaney

We revisit the theory of Discrete Exterior Calculus (DEC) in 2D for general triangulations, relying only on Vector Calculus and Matrix Algebra. We present DEC numerical solutions of the Poisson equation and compare them against those found…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-06-07 Humberto Esqueda , Rafael Herrera , Salvador Botello , Miguel Angel Moreles

A formulation of elliptic boundary value problems is used to develop the first discrete exterior calculus (DEC) library for massively parallel computations with 3D domains. This can be used for steady-state analysis of any physical process…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Pieter D. Boom , Ashley Seepujak , Odysseas Kosmas , Lee Margetts , Andrey Jivkov

We derive a numerical method for Darcy flow, hence also for Poisson's equation in mixed (first order) form, based on discrete exterior calculus (DEC). Exterior calculus is a generalization of vector calculus to smooth manifolds and DEC is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2011-09-01 Anil N. Hirani , Kalyana B. Nakshatrala , Jehanzeb H. Chaudhry

Discrete exterior calculus (DEC) offers a coordinate-free discretization of exterior calculus especially suited for computations on curved spaces. In this work, we present an extended version of DEC on surface meshes formed by general…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-30 Lenka Ptackova , Luiz Velho

A conservative discretization of incompressible Navier-Stokes equations is developed based on discrete exterior calculus (DEC). A distinguishing feature of our method is the use of an algebraic discretization of the interior product…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-04-12 Mamdouh S. Mohamed , Anil N. Hirani , Ravi Samtaney

The simulation of fluid flow problems, specifically incompressible flows governed by the Navier-Stokes equations (NSE), holds fundamental significance in a range of scientific and engineering applications. Traditional numerical methods…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-09-10 Abdullah Abukhwejah , Pankaj Jagad , Ravi Samtaney , Peter Schmid

A short proof of convergence for the discretization of the Hodge-Dirac operator in the framework of discrete exterior calculus (DEC) is provided using the techniques established in [Johnny Guzm\'an and Pratyush Potu, A Framework for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-01 Radovan Dabetić , Ralf Hiptmair

We consider a numerical approach for the incompressible surface Navier-Stokes equation. The approach is based on the covariant form and uses discrete exterior calculus (DEC) in space and a semi-implicit discretization in time. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-11-26 Ingo Nitschke , Sebastian Reuther , Axel Voigt

This paper describes the algorithms, features and implementation of PyDEC, a Python library for computations related to the discretization of exterior calculus. PyDEC facilitates inquiry into both physical problems on manifolds as well as…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2012-02-28 Nathan Bell , Anil N. Hirani

The present work develops, verifies, and benchmarks a hybrid discrete exterior calculus and finite difference (DEC-FD) method for density-stratified thermal convection in spherical shells. Discrete exterior calculus (DEC) is notable for its…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-11-14 Hamid Hassan Khan , Pankaj Jagad , Matteo Parsani

We present a discrete exterior calculus (DEC) based discretization scheme for incompressible two-phase flows. Our physically-compatible exterior calculus discretization of single phase flow is extended to simulate immiscible two-phase flows…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-06-14 Minmiao Wang , Pankaj Jagad , Anil N. Hirani , Ravi Samtaney

This work is thought as an operative guide to discrete exterior calculus (DEC), but at the same time with a rigorous exposition. We present a version of (DEC) on cubic cell, defining it for discrete manifolds. An example of how it works, it…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Leonardo De Carlo

We prove convergence and stability of the discrete exterior calculus (DEC) solutions for the Hodge-Laplace problems in two dimensions for families of meshes that are non-degenerate Delaunay and shape regular. We do this by relating the DEC…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Chengbin Zhu , Snorre H. Christiansen , Kaibo Hu , Anil N. Hirani

TRiSK-type numerical schemes are widely used in both atmospheric and oceanic dynamical cores, due to their discrete analogues of important properties such as energy conservation and steady geostrophic modes. In this work, we show that these…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-17 Christopher Eldred , Werner Bauer

Computational modeling is a key resource to gather insight into physical systems in modern scientific research and engineering. While access to large amount of data has fueled the use of Machine Learning (ML) to recover physical models from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Simone Manti , Alessandro Lucantonio

Analyzing electromagnetic fields in complex, multi-material environments presents substantial computational challenges. To address these, we propose a hybrid numerical method that couples discrete exterior calculus (DEC) with surface…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-09 Amgad Abdrabou , Luis J. Gomez

In exterior calculus on smooth manifolds, the exterior derivative and wedge product are natural with respect to smooth maps between manifolds, that is, these operations commute with pullback. In discrete exterior calculus (DEC), simplicial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-11-14 Mark D. Schubel , Daniel Berwick-Evans , Anil N. Hirani

We present a theory and applications of discrete exterior calculus on simplicial complexes of arbitrary finite dimension. This can be thought of as calculus on a discrete space. Our theory includes not only discrete differential forms but…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Mathieu Desbrun , Anil N. Hirani , Melvin Leok , Jerrold E. Marsden
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