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Riemannian Geometry
Riemannian geometry equips a manifold with a metric, and with it lengths, angles, geodesics and curvature. The metric is also what turns a gradient into a vector, since a derivative is naturally a covector and needs a metric before it can be pointed anywhere. Writing here uses Riemannian structure where curvature carries physical content, in configuration spaces, in homogenisation, and wherever a shortest path is the object of interest.
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April 15, 2026
From RVE to Mesh: A Pipeline for Heterogeneous Continua
A single pipeline from microstructure to discrete solver: mean-field homogenisation on a representative volume element produces an SPD permeability tensor field, which induces a Riemannian metric, whose Hodge star discretises the Laplace-Beltrami operator, and whose scalar curvature drives adaptive remeshing.
March 25, 2026
Reservoir Geometry: Riemannian Manifolds in Oil and Gas
Darcy's law recast as geodesic flow on a Riemannian manifold, pressure diffusion as the Laplace-Beltrami equation, and permeability tensor interpolation via SPD geodesics, with no_std Rust for embedded well-site monitoring.