Barycentric coordinates are an established mathematical tool in computer graphics and geometry processing, providing a convenient way of interpolating scalar or vector data from the boundary of a planar domain to its interior. Many different recipes for barycentric coordinates exist, some offering the convenience of a closedform expression, some providing other desirable properties at the expen...

A new model to describe fractal growth is discussed which includes effects due to long-range coupling between displacements u. The model is based on the biharmonic equation ∇u = 0 in two-dimensional isotropic defect-free media as follows from the Kuramoto-Sivashinsky equation for pattern formation -or, alternatively, from the theory of elasticity. As a difference with Laplacian and Poisson grow...

This paper concerns discontinuous finite element approximations of a fourth-order bi-wave equation arising as a simplified Ginzburg-Landautype model for d-wave superconductors in the absence of an applied magnetic field. In the first half of the paper, we construct a variant of the Morley finite element method, which was originally developed for approximating the fourthorder biharmonic equation...

We consider the Steklov problem for the linear biharmonic equation. We survey existing results for the positivity preserving property to hold. These are connected with the first Steklov eigenvalue. We address the problem of minimizing this eigenvalue among suitable classes of domains. We prove the existence of an optimal convex domain of fixed measure. Mathematics Subject Classification (2000)....

By considering the kernels of the first two traces, four different second order Sobolev spaces may be constructed. For these spaces, embeddings into Lebesgue spaces, the best embedding constant and the possible existence of minimizers are studied. The Euler equation corresponding to some of these minimization problems is a semilinear biharmonic equation with boundary conditions involving third ...

This paper makes a short study of Fredholm integral equations related to potential theory and elasticity, with a view to preparing the ground for their exploitation in the numerical solution of difficult boundary-value problems. Attention is drawn to the advantages of Fredholm's first equation and of Green's boundary formula. The latter plays a fundamental and hitherto unrecognized role in the ...

This paper is intended as a contribution to enhance orthogonal collocation methods. In this, a novel collocation method—TH-collocation—is applied to the biharmonic equation and themerits of such procedure are exhibited. TH-collocation relaxes the continuity requirements and, for the 2D problems here treated, leads to the development of algorithms for which the matrices are sparse (nine-diagonal...