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ACM TRANSACTIONS ON GRAPHICS
Volume 38, Issue 6, Pages -Publisher
ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY
DOI: 10.1145/3355089.3356546
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Vector field decomposition; boundary conditions; discrete exterior calculus; homology; cohomology
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- NSF [DMS1721024, IIS-1900473]
- Pixar Animation Studios
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We present a compendium of Hodge decompositions of vector fields on tetrahedral meshes embedded in the 3D Euclidean space. After describing the foundations of the Hodge decomposition in the continuous setting, we describe how to implement a five-component orthogonal decomposition that generically splits, for a variety of boundary conditions, any given discrete vector field expressed as discrete differential forms into two potential fields, as well as three additional harmonic components that arise from the topology or boundary of the domain. The resulting decomposition is proper and mimetic, in the sense that the theoretical dualities on the kernel spaces of vector Laplacians valid in the continuous case (including correspondences to cohomology and homology groups) are exactly preserved in the discrete realm. Such a decomposition only involves simple linear algebra with symmetric matrices, and can thus serve as a basic computational tool for vector field analysis in graphics, electromagnetics, fluid dynamics and elasticity.
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