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Computing a power diagram
I want to compute the power diagram of a set of points. When the d-spheres overlap, the solution seems straightforward. You construct the d-1 sphere made up by their intersection and then pass a plane ...
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Is there a close form expression for the Fourier basis on a cube without complex values?
In the 1D case, there are multiple expressions of the fourier basis, some of which are sums of pure cosines and signs, without invoking euler's identity.
Is there a closed form expression describing ...
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Sampling pattern for arbitrary regular polygons?
Assume you are given an integer $n$ and want to produce a sampling pattern with that many points on each side.
The square patterns is trivial, you just do n rows of n equidistant points at regular ...
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Heat Equation for fast source with FiPy
I'm trying to solve the following differential equation with FiPy, basically laser irradiation on a surface
$$
\rho_{s}C_{p,s}\frac{\partial T}{\partial t} = k_{s}\frac{\partial^{2}T}{\partial x^{2}} +...
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Efficient computation of arctan with square roots?
I need to convert n-dimensional vectors into hyperspherical coordinates, which involves doing calculating an arctan with an argument which is the square root of a sum of squares (i.e., the radius of a ...
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constrained Delaunay triangulation algorithm starting, not ending, with constraints
Let $X$ be a collection of points in $\mathbb{R}^2$, and let $\Omega$ be a triangulation of the input point set.
A triangle $\{x_i, x_j, x_k\}$ encroaches on the point $x_l$ if $x_l$ is in the ...
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How to smooth out noise of a mesh eigenvector?
I have computed the eigenvectors of the cotan Laplacian of a mesh. It looks like this:
I used ARPACK to get the output, as you can see, there's some lo level noise. What technique could I use to ...
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How to use ARPACK's inverse shift mode
I am trying to get invert shift mode working on ARPACK, and I am interfacing the library through rust.
I am using this laplacian matrix for testing:
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(Isoparametric) Mapping of physical coordinates to their equivalent parametric coordinates on a reference element
I have some experiece with finite element methods (FEM), in general. However, I mainly worked with Cartesian grids -- i.e. using orthogonal (non-curved) elements.
Recently, I became interested in a ...
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Datasets for inverse heat transfer problems
I was wondering if there is an available, real-life known inverse heat transfer problem dataset to benchmark oneselfs algorithm, as in MNIST for deep learning. Talking about... (well in this case I ...
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Coupled Partial Differential Equations
I'm trying to solve the following system of coupled differential equations, the two-temperature model for $e$ = electrons and $l$ = lattice.
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\rho_{e}C_{p,e}\frac{\partial T_{e}}{\partial t} = k_{e}\...
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How can I apply a mixed boundary condition to a multi-material heat transfer problem using Crank-Nicolson?
I am working on a mixed material model for a melting material and need to enforce both a Dirichlet and Neumann type condition at the interface. Subject to an external surface heat flux at the top of ...
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Thermo Hydraulic Mechanical modeling of energy wall slab in Comsol multiphysics
I am currently working on a complex simulation project involving an energy wall slab, and I need assistance in accurately modeling and validating it using COMSOL Multiphysics. Here are the details of ...
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How to handle non bilinear weak form?
I solved the 2D heat equation using the finite element method. It all went well first with the adiabatic case, however problems occured when I introduced cooling with the enviroment.
I modeled the ...
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Efficiently detect overlaying ellipses in distorted images
I'm currently facing the problem of efficiently detecting (special) ellipses in edge images. These images are given (i.e. previous image processing is impossible) and contain quite some noise. I need ...
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Population of the coefficient matrix of a linear system Ax=b stemming from the finite differences of an arbitrary geometry
I've been looking into solving a linear system $$Ax=b$$ where $A\in\mathbb{R}$ is the sparse coefficient matrix of size $K\times K$, $b\in\mathbb{R}$ is the right-hand side (i.e., the source term) of ...
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Find a set of positions of a rectangle of fixed size, which would "cover" a curve on a plane
I have a curve on a plane, and a rectangle with one side much longer than the other (let's say it is a "thick segment). I need to find a set of positions of the rectangle which would include all ...
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Cover a 3D surface with 2D rectangles of fixed size, allowing overlap
I have a 3D surface, defined as collection of points in a 3D evenly spaced mesh. I have a rectangle of fixed size (height x width), and I need to find a collection of rectangles positions in the 3D ...
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Where am I making a mistake in solving the heat equation using the spectral method (Chebyshev's differentiation matrix)?
I would like to numerically solve the following heat equation problem:
$$ u_t = \Bigg(2{a \over l}\Bigg)^2 u_{xx} \tag 1$$
$$ x \in [ -1, 1 ] \tag 2$$
$$ u(x, 0) = 0 \tag 3$$
$$ u(1, t) = A \sin \Bigg(...
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Need help with the python code: Calculating Madelung constant CsCl crystal structure
Need help with the code to estimate the Madelung constant for CsCl lattice:
Cs at (0,0,0)
Cl at (0.5, 0.5, 0.5)
Answer: Converged value I am getting is 0.465. ...
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Role of rotation's pivot point in optimization?
In this paper, the authors describe how to use locally rigid transformations (sampled on nodes in space) to deform mesh vertices. In the paper, rotations are relative to the pivot point, which ...
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Order in a subset
Lets consider a range of "K" binary digit numbers. In that range, we want to take a subset of those values which have (<="n" consecutive 0s) AND (<="n" consecutive ...
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How do you build a polyharmonic discrete system?
Polyharmonic equations, to my understanding, are defined as:
$$\Delta ^k u = 0$$
i.e. one repeatedly applies the laplace operator to the function a certain number of times and the result must be 0.
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Computing discrete laplacian matrix for mesh fairing
I asked this question on the math stack exchange and got an answer, but I am just as utterly confused as before. My fundamental goal is to actually construct the matrix, that is, a series of steps I ...
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Optimization: Find minimizer along linestring
Given some function f(x) and a set of points A representing a linestring (or polygonal chain), I am searching for the point on ...
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Algorithm for 1-dimensional minimal surfaces
Consider a set of points. For simplicity, let's say that those are 2D points (although the problem works in higher dimensions as well). The goal is to find the minimum possible length of a connected 1-...
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Why does scipy Conjugate Gradient solver fail to converge for non-steady heat equation using Crank-Nicolson method
Could someone please explain why my implementation of the Crank-Nicolson method applied to the non-steady heat equation won't converge? There shouldn't be any nonlinear aspects to my implementation ...
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Efficient heat diffusion implementation with varying coefficients
I have the following heat diffusion equation:
\begin{alignat}{3}
\partial_t u(t, \vec{x}) &= g(\vec{x})\Delta u(t,\vec{x}), &\quad& \vec{x} \in\Omega, \, t\in(0,\infty],\\
\partial_n u(t,\...
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Equilibrium position finding with DSM
I've coded a framework that can be used to simulate the dynamic behavior of a system discretized by particles (nodes) that are connected by spring-damper elements. However, I want to compare it to a ...
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Parallel Block-Structured class abstraction for FDM
I’m currently developing a FDM/FVM (using contravariant coordinates) code using Fortran and Co-Arrays (SIMD, in general), and so far I have all sparse matrix (BiCGStab, working on AMG) solvers and ...
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Prediction of sphere (i.e. roast) core temperature heated in an oven
The real-life problem
Assume I put a spherical roast with initially constant temperature of start_temp=25 (°C) into an oven with ...
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2D Heat equation solved with finite element method converges in skewed way
I tried to solve the 2D heat equation with the finite element method, using triangles as elements. Currently generated by a Delaunay triangulation. The base function I'm currently using is basically ...
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Partial derivatives for triangular meshes (in 3D)
A grid offers an obvious definition for the partial derivatives at a grid point, given
$x$ the value of a point $p$ in an $n$ dimensional grid, the forward partial derivative that point for coordinate ...
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Finding maximums in mesh of graph?
I have a triangle mesh which is an approximation of a smooth graph. i.e. a scalar function of $xy$.
I am interested in finding extrema. One naive way I did it was to look at some number of points ...
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Adding stability to MPM simulation?
I am writing a 2D implementation of MLS-MPM, I have fluids working perfetly fine, solids technically work as well, at low time steps.
This is the fluid simulation at a large time step:
https://i....
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How to get a normalized gradient with FreeFem++?
I am trying to use FreeFem++ to solve the heat geodesics algorithm.
The algorithm is:
solve $\dot u = \Delta u$ at a specific time $t$.
compute $X = \frac{\nabla u_t}{|\nabla u_t|}$
solve $\Delta\phi ...
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Suggestions for libraries that can numerically compute geodesics from a given Riemannian metric?
I am dealing with a non-trivial Riemannian metric $H$ defined on a particular subset of Euclidean space ($E \subset \mathbb{R}^n$). I was able to show the Riemannian manifold $(E,H)$ is geodesically ...
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Computing numerical derivatives
I am trying to create a sweeping surface, for which I need the frenet frame of a curve. I am trying to compute this for arbitrary curves but for testing I am just using the parametric unit half circle....
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Accuracy of the Crank-Nicolson method for non-linear, inhomogeneous heat equation
I am currently coding a solution to the following PDE:
$\frac{\partial T }{\partial t} =\frac{\partial}{\partial \theta}(A(\theta ,\phi )\frac{\partial T }{\partial \theta}) +\frac{\partial }{\partial ...
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Delaunay-based isosurface extraction vs marching cubes
I recently tried the isosurface extraction algorithm provided by the C++ library CGAL. This is new to me. It is based on Delaunay triangulations.
I have some experience with the marching cubes, I ...
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Conceptual doubt regarding 2D conjugate heat transfer modelling (COMSOL and Mathemtica)
I have been dealing with some conceptual flaws in my understanding of modelling, which I will elaborate herein. I am modelling conjugate heat transfer of a reciprocating fluid, which flows with ...
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Maximal "Convex Augmentation" of a Triangle in 2D Mesh
Consider a convex polygon in $\mathbb{R}^2$ with multiple convex holes in it and suppose that, for now, we have a 2D triangular mesh of the polygon, which is represented by $\mathcal{T} \equiv\{T_i\}...
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Selecting most points from a set of points with distance constraint
I am looking for an algorithm to select the largest subset of $M$ points from a set of $N$ points ($M < N$) such that no point is within a certain minimal distance d to any other point in $M$? I ...
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robustness of geometric predicates in Euclidean vs homogeneous coordinates
The signed volume of the triangle formed by the points $p, q, r$ in the plane is defined to be
$$\text{volume}(p, q, r) \equiv \det\left[\begin{matrix}q_1 - p_1 & r_1 - p_1 \\ q_2 - p_2 & r_2 -...
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Open source implementations of the medial axis transform for vector shapes
Are there any open source implementations of the medial axis transform for vector shapes?
I have searched without finding any useful results. It seems that CGAL library doesn't have it implemented nor ...
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How to generate coordinate points of a smallcircle on earth
I am looking up celestial navigation, and according to
https://youtu.be/-ARXW8InStY?t=3320
a specific sun angle reading (sun angle above the horizon) will be the same on a small-circle with the centre ...
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Difference between Numeric, Combinatorial, and Geometric Computing
In the paper [1], author has discussed a distinction between the 3 types of computations: numeric, combinatorial, and geometric. The author says that Geometric computation is one that has elements of ...
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Problem with my Octave code (unsteady heat equation with FEM)
I want help with my Octave code regarding the unsteady heat equation.
My geometry and mesh are generated with FreeFEM++, so there is no problem with that (I tried it with the steady problem with no ...
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Min supporting line of a set of points
I am following along Rourke's book and I am trying to do the excercies mentioned in this SO post:
Min supporting line for a set of points
Design an algorithm to find a line 𝐿 that:
has all the ...
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Aerofoil study using CFD, struggling to find aerofoil coordinates
I’ve been messing around with Ansys and I’m struggling to find the aerofoil coordinates for a NACA 66-012?
I looked on Airfoil tools, but it doesn’t allow you to generate a 6 series aerofoil, only 4 ...
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