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High order geometric methods with splines: fast solution with explicit time-stepping for Maxwell equations

Rafael Vazquez Hernandez, Bernard Kapidani

We introduce a high-order spline geometric approach for the initial boundary value problem for Maxwell's equations. The method is geometric in the sense that it discretizes in structure preserving fashion the two de Rham sequences of differential forms inv ...

2023

Resistances to change in urban travel behaviors

Marc-Edouard Baptiste Grégoire Schultheiss

The social discourse surrounding the climate emergency progressively infuses the society, transforming into both micro- and macro-social injunctions to change. Yet, society - grounded in a territorial, social, and cultural contingency - appears to resist t ...

EPFL2023

Immersed boundary-conformal isogeometric method for linear elliptic problems

Annalisa Buffa, Pablo Antolin Sanchez, Xiaodong Wei

We present a novel isogeometric method, namely the Immersed Boundary-Conformal Method (IBCM), that features a layer of discretization conformal to the boundary while employing a simple background mesh for the remaining domain. In this manner, we leverage t ...

2021

A computational workflow for the expansion of heterologous biosynthetic pathways to natural product derivatives

Vassily Hatzimanikatis, Jasmin Maria Hafner

Plant natural products (PNPs) and their derivatives are important but underexplored sources of pharmaceutical molecules. To access this untapped potential, the reconstitution of heterologous PNP biosynthesis pathways in engineered microbes provides a valua ...

Nature Research2021

Characterization of the traces on the boundary of functions in magnetic Sobolev spaces

Hoài-Minh Nguyên

We characterize the trace of magnetic Sobolev spaces defined in a half-space or in a smooth bounded domain in which the magnetic field Ais differentiable and its exterior derivative corresponding to the magnetic field dAis bounded. In particular, we prove ...

2020

Shake table test of a masonry building retrofitted with shotcrete

Katrin Beyer, Kiarash Mohtasham Dolatshahi

This paper presents the results of a series of shake table tests carried out on a half-scale single-story unreinforced masonry building with asymmetric openings. First, the unretrofitted building is subjected to seven increasing steps of bidirectional seis ...

2020

Sur quelques équations aux dérivées partielles en lien avec le lemme de Poincaré

David Valentin Strütt

In this thesis, we study two distinct problems. The first problem consists of studying the linear system of partial differential equations which consists of taking a k-form, and applying the exterior derivative 'd' to it and add the wedge product with a 1- ...

EPFL2018

Notions of affinity in calculus of variations with differential forms

Saugata Bandyopadhyay, Swarnendu Sil

Ext-int. one affine functions are functions affine in the direction of one-divisible exterior forms with respect to the exterior product in one variable and with respect to the interior product in the other. The purpose of this article is to prove a charac ...

Walter De Gruyter Gmbh2016

On the geometrical interpretation of scale-invariant models of inflation

Georgios Karananas, Javier Rubio

We study the geometrical properties of scale-invariant two-field models of inflation. In particular, we show that when the field-derivative space in the Einstein frame is maximally symmetric during inflation, the inflationary predictions can be universal a ...

Elsevier2016

Structural insights on cholesterol endosynthesis: Binding of squalene and 2,3-oxidosqualene to supernatant protein factor

Michele Cascella, Maria Josefina Marcaida Lopez, Christos Lamprakis

We present the crystal structures of the SEC14-like domain of supernatant protein factor (SPF) in complex with squalene and 2,3-oxidosqualene. The structures were resolved at 1.75 angstrom (complex with squalene) and 1.6 angstrom resolution (complex with 2 ...

Elsevier2015

Analytical approximation for the recession of a sloping aquifer

David Andrew Barry, Marc Parlange

An approximation is obtained for the recession of a sloping aquifer. The analytical approximation can provide a useful tool to analyze data and obtain physical properties of the aquifer. In contrast to the case of a horizontal aquifer, when plotting the ti ...

American Geophysical Union2014

Finite Dimensional Methods for Differential Flatness

Basile Graf

In Control System Theory, the study of continuous-time, finite dimensional, underdetermined systems of ordinary differential equations is an important topic. Classification of systems in different categories is a natural initial step to the analysis of a g ...

EPFL2013

Mean-square A-stable diagonally drift-implicit integrators of weak second order for stiff Itô stochastic differential equations

Assyr Abdulle, Gilles Vilmart

We introduce two drift-diagonally-implicit and derivative-free integrators for stiff systems of It stochastic differential equations with general non-commutative noise which have weak order 2 and deterministic order 2, 3, respectively. The methods are show ...

2013

L'équation de rappel

Olivier Kneuss

In this thesis we are interested in the following problem : given two differential k–forms g and f, most of the time they will be assumed closed, on what conditions can we pullback g to f by a map φ ? In other words we ask when it is possible to solve the ...

EPFL2011

Heritage, energy, economy: planned preventive conservation and thermal improvements to building envelopes at the Cité du Lignon satellite precinct, Geneva (1963-1971)

Franz Graf, Giulia Marino

Built between 1963 and 1971, the Lignon satellite precinct in Geneva (Georges Addor, Dominique Julliard, Louis Payot, Jacques Bolliger architects) is regarded as the most spectacular housing development in post-war Switzerland. The heritage protection agen ...

Electa2009

On the naturality of the exterior differential

Marc Troyanov

We give sufficient conditions for the naturallity of the exterior differential under Sobolev mappings. In other words we study the validity of the equation

d\, f^* \alpha = f^*\; d\alpha

for a smooth form

\alpha

and a Sobolev map

f

. ...

2008

Stabilized finite element schemes for incompressible flow using Scott-Vogelius elements

Erik Burman

We propose a stabilized mixed finite element method based on the Scott-Vogelius element tor the Oseen equation. Here. only convection has to he stabilized since by construction both the discrete pressure and the divergence of the discrete velocities, are c ...

2008

Sobolev inequalities for differential forms and $L_{q,p}$-cohomology

Marc Troyanov

We study the relation between Sobolev inequalities for differential forms on a Riemannian manifold

(M,g)

and the

L_{q,p}

-cohomology of that manifold. The

L_{q,p}

-cohomology of

(M,g)

is defined to be the quotient of the space of closed differential ...

2006

Gravitating field-theoretical branes and their excitations

Katarzyna Zuleta Estrugo

This thesis is devoted to studying field-theoretical branes in warped geometries, with emphasis on brane excitations and properties of background solutions. Firstly, we examine the features of a model in which our universe is represented by a local string- ...

EPFL2005