toad.social is one of the many independent Mastodon servers you can use to participate in the fediverse.
Mastodon server operated by David Troy, a tech pioneer and investigative journalist addressing threats to democracy. Thoughtful participation and discussion welcome.

Administered by:

Server stats:

273
active users

#periodic

0 posts0 participants0 posts today

I'm wondering: #physics makes a lot of use of #periodic functions, in particular it is very useful to solve space-dependent equations in representative volumes with #periodicBoundaryConditions.

However I've only seen it done with periodicity along orthogonal directions, aligned with a Cartesian frame.

Do you know of work, e.g. #PDE resolution, in nonrectangular #periodicDomains? E.g., in a #tiled hexagon? (but with a sufficiently generic setting, not exploiting regular hexagon symmetries) Even better if the periodicity parameters themselves are among the unknowns.

(Maybe I'm completely missing something obvious there, I'm in my first steps towards defining what I want - any random thought on the topic highly welcome!)

#tiling people?