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This paper addresses the analysis and numerical assessment of a computational method for solving the Cahn--Hilliard equation defined on a surface. The proposed approach combines the stabilized trace finite element method for spatial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-27 Deepika Garg , Maxim Olshanskii

The Closest Point method, initially developed by Ruuth and Merriman, allows for the numerical solution of surface partial differential equations without the need for a parameterization of the surface itself. Surface quantities are embedded…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2017-06-28 Christopher J. Vogl

In this paper, we propose a numerical method to solve isotropic elliptic equations on point cloud by generalizing the point integral method. The idea of the point integral method is to approximate the differential operators by integral…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-04-12 Zhen Li , Zuoqiang Shi

We present a new fixed mesh algorithm for solving a class of interface inverse problems for the typical elliptic interface problems. These interface inverse problems are formulated as shape optimization prob- lems whose objective…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-18 Ruchi Guo , Tao Lin , Yanping Lin

We present a novel Material Point Method (MPM) discretization of surface tension forces that arise from spatially varying surface energies. These variations typically arise from surface energy dependence on temperature and/or concentration.…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Jingyu Chen , Victoria Kala , Alan Marquez-Razon , Elias Gueidon , David A. B. Hyde , Joseph Teran

Deep neural representations of 3D shapes as implicit functions have been shown to produce high fidelity models surpassing the resolution-memory trade-off faced by the explicit representations using meshes and point clouds. However, most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Rahul Venkatesh , Tejan Karmali , Sarthak Sharma , Aurobrata Ghosh , R. Venkatesh Babu , László A. Jeni , Maneesh Singh

In this paper, we propose an iterative convolution-thresholding method (ICTM) based on prediction-correction for solving the topology optimization problem in steady-state heat transfer equations. The problem is formulated as a constrained…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-03 Huangxin Chen , Piaopiao Dong , Dong Wang , Xiao-Ping Wang

The numerical performance of the material point method (MPM) is strongly governed by the particle-grid kernel, which controls the trade-off among smoothness, locality, numerical diffusion, contact accuracy, and computational cost. Although…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Qirui Fu , Yupeng Jiang , Minchen Li

The discretization of elliptic PDEs leads to large coupled systems of equations. Domain decomposition methods (DDMs) are one approach to the solution of these systems, and can split the problem in a way that allows for parallel computing.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-08-01 Ian May , Ronald D. Haynes , Steven J. Ruuth

We present a framework for solving partial different equations on evolving surfaces. Based on the grid-based particle method (GBPM) [18], the method can naturally resample the surface even under large deformation from the motion law. We…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-25 Ningchen Ying , Shingyu Leung

A mathematical model of the heat process in one-dimensional domain governed by a cylindrical heat equation with a heat source on the axis $z=0$ and nonlinear thermal coefficients is considered. The developed model is particularly applicable…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-11-07 Julieta Bollati , Adriana C. Briozzo , Stanislav N. Kharin , Targyn A. Nauryz

This paper uses Lie symmetry analysis to investigate the biharmonic heat equation on a generalized surface of revolution. We classify the Lie point symmetries associated with this equation, allowing for the identification of surfaces and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-03 Aminu Ma'aruf Nass , Kassimu Mpungu , Rahmatullah Ibrahim Nuruddeen

We propose Hierarchical Optimization Time Integration (HOT) for efficient implicit time-stepping of the Material Point Method (MPM) irrespective of simulated materials and conditions. HOT is an MPM-specialized hierarchical optimization…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Xinlei Wang , Minchen Li , Yu Fang , Xinxin Zhang , Ming Gao , Min Tang , Danny M. Kaufman , Chenfanfu Jiang

We propose a new formulation for integrating over smooth curves and surfaces that are described by their closest point mappings. Our method is designed for curves and surfaces that are not defined by any explicit parameterization and is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-10-16 Catherine Kublik , Richard Tsai

Surface reconstruction from point clouds is a fundamental step in many applications in computer vision. In this paper, we develop an efficient iterative method on a variational model for the surface reconstruction from point clouds. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-05-26 Dong Wang

Numerous applications of Eikonal equations prompted the development of many efficient numerical algorithms. The Heap-Cell Method (HCM) is a recent serial two-scale technique that has been shown to have advantages over other serial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-10-02 Adam Chacon , Alexander Vladimirsky

In this study, we derived a three-dimensional scaled boundary finite element formulation for heat conduction problems. By incorporating Wachspress shape functions, a polyhedral scaled boundary finite element method (PSBFEM) was proposed to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-01 Mingjiao Yan , Yang Yang , Chao Su , Zongliang Zhang , Qingsong Duan , Dengmiao Hao , Jian Zhou

We develop subgradient- and gradient-based methods for minimizing strongly convex functions under a notion which generalizes the standard Euclidean strong convexity. We propose a unifying framework for subgradient methods which yields two…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-08-19 Masaru Ito

A deep learning approach to numerically approximate the solution to the Eikonal equation is introduced. The proposed method is built on the fast marching scheme which comprises of two components: a local numerical solver and an update…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-20 Moshe Lichtenstein , Gautam Pai , Ron Kimmel

In this paper, we define new unfitted finite element methods for numerically approximating the solution of surface partial differential equations using bulk finite elements. The key idea is that the $n$-dimensional hypersurface, $\Gamma…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-03-21 Klaus Deckelnick , Charles M. Elliott , Thomas Ranner