The connection of curves and surfaces in R3 to some nonlinear partial differential equations is very well known in differential geometry [1], [2]. Motion of curves on two dimensional surfaces in differential geometry lead to some integrable nonlinear differential equations such as nonlinear Schrödinger (NLS) equation [3], Korteweg de Vries (KdV) and modified Korteweg de Vries (mKdV) equations [...

The anchored hyperplane location problem is to locate a hyperplane passing through some given points P ⊆ IR and minimizing either the sum of weighted distances (median problem), or the maximum weighted distance (center problem) to some other points Q ⊆ IR. This problem of computational geometry is analyzed by using nonlinear programming techniques. If the distances are measured by a norm, it wi...

An efficient finite volume approach has been used to develop a three dimensional Helmholtz acoustic solver for complex geometries. This acoustic solver was utilized to obtain characteristic mode shapes and frequencies of a baffled combustion chamber. An experimental setup, including stationary and moving sensors, has also been used to measure these quantities for the same model combustion chamb...

This paper presents a geometric-variational approach to continuous and discrete mechanics and field theories. Using multisymplectic geometry, we show that the existence of the fundamental geometric structures as well as their preservation along solutions can be obtained directly from the variational principle. In particular, we prove that a unique multisymplectic structure is obtained by taking...

In a nonlinear regression model with a given prior distribution, the estimator maximizing the posterior probability density is considered (a certain kind of Bayes estimator). It is shown that the prior influences essentially, but in a comprehensive way, the geometry of the model, including the intrinsic curvature measure of nonlinearity which is derived in the paper. The obtained geometrical re...

Colombeau’s construction of generalized functions (in its special variant) is extended to a theory of generalized sections of vector bundles. As particular cases, generalized tensor analysis and exterior algebra are studied. A point value characterization for generalized functions on manifolds is derived, several algebraic characterizations of spaces of generalized sections are established and ...

We first review some topics in the classical computational geometry of lines, in particular the O(n) bounds for the combinatorial complexity of the set of lines in R interacting with n objects of fixed description complexity. The main part of this survey is recent work on a core algebraic problem—studying the lines tangent to k spheres that also meet 4−k fixed lines.

We discuss some basic concepts of semi-Riemannian geometry in low-regularity situations. In particular, we compare the settings of (linear) distributional geometry in the sense of L. Schwartz and nonlinear distributional geometry in the sense of J.F. Colombeau. AMS Mathematics Subject Classification (2000): Primary: 83C75; secondary: 46T30, 53B30, 46F10, 46F30.

We survey some of the recent developments in the nonlinear theory of Banach spaces, with emphasis on problems of Lipschitz and uniform homeomorphism and uniform and coarse embeddings of metric spaces.