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We develop numerical methods to simulate the fluid-mechanical erosion of many bodies in two-dimensional Stokes flow. The broad aim is to simulate the erosion of a porous medium (e.g. groundwater flow) with grain-scale resolution. Our fluid…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-09-26 Bryan D. Quaife , M. Nicholas J. Moore

Microstructural evolution in structural materials is known to occur in response to mechanical loading and can often accommodate substantial plastic deformation through the coupled motion of grain boundaries (GBs). This can produce desirable…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-06 Daniel Bugas , Brandon Runnels

An artificial neural network is used to evaluate the effectiveness of six metrics and their combinations to assess whether slip transfers across grain boundaries in coarse-grained oligocrystalline Al foils…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-05-13 Zhuowen Zhao , Thomas R. Bieler , Javier LLorca , Philip Eisenlohr

Rate of grain growth, which aides in achieving desired properties in polycrystalline materials, is conventionally estimated by measuring the size of grains and tracking its change in micrographs reflecting the temporal evolution. Techniques…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-06-17 Manoj Prabakar , P G Kubendran Amos

We present an algorithm for computing the nonlinear interface dynamics of the Mullins-Sekerka model for interfaces that are defined implicitly (e.g. by a level set function) using integral equations . The computation of the dynamics…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-04-04 Chieh Chen , Catherine Kublik , Richard Tsai

We propose a data-driven mean-curvature solver for the level-set method. This work is the natural extension to $\mathbb{R}^3$ of our two-dimensional strategy in [DOI: 10.1007/s10915-022-01952-2][1] and the hybrid inference system of [DOI:…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-12 Luis Ángel Larios-Cárdenas , Frédéric Gibou

In this paper, we propose to use the eikonal equation as a boundary condition when advective or normal flow equations in the level set formulation are solved numerically on polyhedral meshes in the three-dimensional domain. Since the level…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-09 Jooyoung Hahn , Karol Mikula , Peter Frolkovič

We propose a level set method to reconstruct unknown surfaces from point clouds, without assuming that the connections between points are known. We consider a variational formulation with a curvature constraint that minimizes the surface…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-30 Silvia Preda , Matteo Semplice

We introduce a framework for joint grounded scene graph - image generation, a challenging task involving high-dimensional, multi-modal structured data. To effectively model this complex joint distribution, we adopt a factorized approach:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Bicheng Xu , Qi Yan , Renjie Liao , Lele Wang , Leonid Sigal

The present work illustrates a difficulty with the level-set method to accurately capture the curvature of interfaces in regions that are of equal distance to two or more interfaces. Such regions are characterized by kinks in the level-set…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-09-24 Karl Yngve Lervåg , Åsmund Ervik

We present algebraic multilevel iteration (AMLI) methods for isogeometric discretization of scalar second order elliptic problems. The construction of coarse grid operators and hierarchical complementary operators are given. Moreover, for a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-10-08 K. P. S. Gahalaut , S. K. Tomar , J. K. Kraus

We apply self consistent field theory to twist grain boundaries of block copolymer melts. The distribution of monomers throughout the grain boundary is obtained as well as the grain boundary free energy per unit area as a function of twist…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Daniel Duque , Michael Schick

In this work, we introduce a novel computational framework for solving the two-dimensional Hele-Shaw free boundary problem with surface tension. The moving boundary is represented by point clouds, eliminating the need for a global…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-21 Zengyan Zhang , Wenrui Hao , John Harlim

We describe numerical solutions of two non potential models of pattern formation in nonequilibrium systems to address the motion and decay of grain boundaries separating domains of stripe configurations of different orientations. We first…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Zhi-Feng Huang , Jorge Vinals

When modeling microstructures, the computational resource requirements increase rapidly as the simulation domain becomes larger. As a result, simulating a small representative fraction under periodic boundary conditions is often a necessary…

A model for ionic and electronic grain boundary transport through thin films, scales or membranes with columnar grain structure is introduced. The grain structure is idealized as a lattice of identical hexagonal cells - a honeycomb pattern.…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-05-05 M. P. Tautschnig , N. M. Harrison , M. W. Finnis

In this paper, we introduce a novel way to represent the interface for two-phase flows with phase change. We combine a level-set method with a Cartesian embedded boundary method and take advantage of both. This is part of an effort to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-12-28 A. Limare , S. Popinet , C. Josserand , Z. Xue , A. Ghigo

Coarse graining is an important ingredient in many multi-scale continuum-discrete solvers such as CFD--DEM (computational fluid dynamics--discrete element method) solvers for dense particle-laden flows. Although CFD--DEM solvers have become…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-08-14 Rui Sun , Heng Xiao

A parallel cut-cell algorithm is described to solve the free-boundary problem of the Grad-Shafranov equation. The algorithm reformulates the free-boundary problem in an irregular bounded domain and its important aspects include a searching…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-08-31 Shuang Liu , Qi Tang , Xian-Zhu Tang

In applying the level-set method developed in [Van den Berg and Friedlander, SIAM J. on Scientific Computing, 31 (2008), pp.~890--912 and SIAM J. on Optimization, 21 (2011), pp.~1201--1229] to solve the fused lasso problems, one needs to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-06-28 Xudong Li , Defeng Sun , Kim-Chuan Toh