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The Uzawa method is a method for solving constrained optimization problems, and is often used in computational contact mechanics. The simplicity of this method is an advantage, but its convergence is slow. This paper presents an accelerated…
This work presents a concise theoretical and computational framework for the finite element formulation of frictional contact problems with arbitrarily large deformation and sliding. The aim of this work is to extend the contact theory…
We introduce two improvements in the numerical scheme to simulate collision and slow shearing of irregular particles. First, we propose an alternative approach based on simple relations to compute the frictional contact forces. The approach…
We propose two variants of Newton method for solving unconstrained minimization problem. Our method leverages optimization techniques such as penalty and augmented Lagrangian method to generate novel variants of the Newton method namely the…
Contact interfaces with dry friction are frequently used in turbomachinery. Dry friction damping produced by the sliding surfaces of these interfaces reduces the amplitude of bladed-disk vibration. The relative displacements at these…
We propose a novel and efficient lifting approach for the optimal control of rigid-body systems with contacts to improve the convergence properties of Newton-type methods. To relax the high nonlinearity, we consider the state, acceleration,…
The paper presents two-scale numerical algorithms for stress-strain analysis of porous media featured by self-contact at pore level. The porosity is constituted as a periodic lattice generated by a representative cell consisting of elastic…
Multiphysics problems involving two or more coupled physical phenomena are ubiquitous in science and engineering. This work develops a new partitioned exponential approach for the time integration of multiphysics problems. After a possible…
We consider the approximation of the 2D frictionless contact problem in elasticity using the Virtual Element Methods (VEMs). To overcome the volumetric locking phenomenon in the nearly incompressible case, we adopt a mixed…
A virtual element discretisation of an Arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian method for two-dimensional convection-diffusion equations is proposed employing an isoparametric Virtual Element Method to achieve higher-order convergence rates on curved…
In this work, we design and analyze a Discrete de Rham (DDR) scheme for a contact mechanics problem involving fractures along which a model of Tresca friction is considered. Our approach is based on a mixed formulation involving a…
We propose in this work a subgradient extragradient method with inertial and correction terms for solving equilibrium problems in a real Hilbert space. We obtain that the sequence generated by our proposed method converges weakly to a point…
This paper develops the proximal method of multipliers for a class of nonsmooth convex optimization. The method generates a sequence of minimization problems (subproblems). We show that the sequence of approximations to the solutions of the…
This work introduces an unconventional inexact augmented Lagrangian method where the augmenting term is a Euclidean norm raised to a power between one and two. The proposed algorithm is applicable to a broad class of constrained nonconvex…
In this paper, we develop a novel primal-dual semismooth Newton method for solving linearly constrained multi-block convex composite optimization problems. First, a differentiable augmented Lagrangian (AL) function is constructed by…
The aim of the present work is to extend the a priori error for contact problems with an augmented Lagrangian method. We focus on unilateral contact problem without friction between an elastic body and a rigid one. We consider the…
We present a globally convergent method for the solution of frictionless large deformation contact problems for hyperelastic materials. The discretisation uses the mortar method which is known to be more stable than node-to-segment…
A collision-based hybrid method for the discrete ordinates approximation of the multigroup neutron transport equation is developed for two-dimensional time-dependent problems. At each time step, this algorithm splits the neutron transport…
This paper addresses a class of general nonsmooth and nonconvex composite optimization problems subject to nonlinear equality constraints. We assume that a part of the objective function and the functional constraints exhibit local…
We present a framework for the simulation of rigid and deformable bodies in the presence of contact and friction. Our method is based on a non-smooth Newton iteration that solves the underlying nonlinear complementarity problems (NCPs)…