Research

Papers

Submitted

A High-Order Fast Direct Solver for Surface PDEs on Triangles

This triangular formulation is designed for complex geometries. For structured meshes, the quadrilateral HPS formulation remains more efficient. The companion work arXiv:2512.24456 gives the broader framework, including quadrilateralization and evolving surfaces.

Published

Global Polynomial Level Sets for Numerical Differential Geometry of Smooth Closed Surfaces

With Sachin K. Thekke Veettil, Uwe Hernandez Acosta, Ivo F. Sbalzarini, and Michael Hecht

A Note on the Rate of Convergence of Integration Schemes for Closed Surfaces

With Elima Shehu and Michael Hecht

High-Order Numerical Integration on Regular Embedded Surfaces

With Michael Hecht

Software

pysurfacefun

High-order discretizations and fast direct solvers for PDEs on smooth surfaces.

surfgeopy

Surface integral approximation over smooth embedded manifolds.

surfpy

Spectral surface integration on embedded manifolds.

minterpy-levelsets

Numerical differential geometry on smooth surfaces via global polynomial level sets, with high-order surface quadrature, enclosed volume computation, and geometric invariant integration using an Algoim/C++ backend.

PhD Thesis

Spectral Discretizations on Surfaces: High-Order Methods for Integration and PDE Solvers

Technische Universität Dresden (2026) — supervised by Oliver Sander & Michael Hecht