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Approximating partial differential equations for extensive industrial and scientific applications requires leveraging the power of modern high-performance computing. In large-scale parallel computations, the geometrical discretisation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-30 Pere A. Martorell , Santiago Badia

Parametric finite elements lead to very efficient numerical methods for surface evolution equations. We introduce several computational techniques for curvature driven evolution equations based on a weak formulation for the mean curvature.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-01-17 John W. Barrett , Harald Garcke , Robert Nürnberg

This paper establishes a unified element-based framework for formation control by introducing the concept of the deformation gradient from continuum mechanics. Unlike traditional methods that rely on geometric constraints defined on graph…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-07 Kun Cao , Lihua Xie

The eXtended Finite Element Method (XFEM) is an approach for solving problems with non-smooth solutions. In the XFEM, the approximate solution is locally enriched to capture discontinuities without requiring a mesh which conforms to the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-12-23 Christapher Lang , David Makhija , Alireza Doostan , Kurt Maute

Deformable elastic bodies in viscous and viscoelastic media constitute a large portion of synthetic and biological complex fluids. We present a parallelized 3D-simulation methodology which fully resolves the momentum balance in the solid…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-03-11 Amir Saadat , Chris J. Guido , Gianluca Iaccarino , Eric S. G. Shaqfeh

In recent years, the immersed finite element methods (IFEM) introduced in \cite{Li2003}, \cite{Li2004} to solve elliptic problems having an interface in the domain due to the discontinuity of coefficients are getting more attentions of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-07-06 Do Y. Kwak , Juho Lee

This article takes the form of a tutorial on the use of a particular class of mixed finite element methods, which can be thought of as the finite element extension of the C-grid staggered finite difference method. The class is often…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-01-06 C. J. Cotter , A. T. T. McRae

The NIF Integrated Computer Control System (ICCS) application software uses a set of service frameworks that assures uniform behavior spanning the front-end processors (FEPs) and supervisor programs. This uniformity is visible both in the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Kirby W. Fong , Christopher M. Estes , John M. Fisher , Randy T. Shelton

Federated learning (FL), aimed at leveraging vast distributed datasets, confronts a crucial challenge: the heterogeneity of data across different silos. While previous studies have explored discrete representations to enhance model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Tianyi Zhang , Yu Cao , Dianbo Liu

In this work, we show that exploiting additional variables in a mixed finite element formulation of deformation leads to an efficient physics-based character skinning algorithm. Taking as input, a user-defined rig, we show how to…

We describe and implement a symbolic algebra for scalar and vector-valued finite elements, enabling the computer generation of elements with tensor product structure on quadrilateral, hexahedral and triangular prismatic cells. The algebra…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-11-01 Andrew T. T. McRae , Gheorghe-Teodor Bercea , Lawrence Mitchell , David A. Ham , Colin J. Cotter

A higher-order accurate finite element method is proposed which uses automatically generated meshes based on implicit level-set data for the description of boundaries and interfaces in two and three dimensions. The method is an alternative…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2017-06-06 T. P. Fries

This article presents an immersed virtual element method for solving a class of interface problems that combines the advantages of both body-fitted mesh methods and unfitted mesh methods. A background body-fitted mesh is generated…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-02 Shuhao Cao , Long Chen , Ruchi Guo , Frank Lin

It has been noted that the traditional scaling argument cannot be directly applied to the error analysis of immersed finite elements (IFE) because, in general, the spaces on the reference element associated with the IFE spaces on different…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-13 Slimane Adjerid , Tao Lin , Haroun Meghaichi

We present a loosely coupled approach for the solution of fluid-structure interaction problems between a compressible flow and a deformable structure. The method is based on staggered Dirichlet-Neumann partitioning. The interface motion in…

In this paper, we propose a new approach -- the Tempered Finite Element Method (TFEM) -- that extends the Finite Element Method (FEM) to classes of meshes that include zero-measure or nearly degenerate elements for which standard FEM…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-27 Antoine Quiriny , Václav Kučera , Jonathan Lambrechts , Nicolas Moës , Jean-François Remacle

The paper studies an Allen-Cahn-type equation defined on a time-dependent surface as a model of phase separation with order-disorder transition in a thin material layer. By a formal inner-outer expansion, it is shown that the limiting…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-27 Maxim Olshanskii , Xianmin Xu , Vladimir Yushutin

The aim of this paper is to develop a numerical scheme to approximate evolving interface problems for parabolic equations based on the abstract evolving finite element framework proposed in (C M Elliott, T Ranner, IMA J Num Anal, 41:3,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-15 C. M. Elliott , T. Ranner , P. Stepanov

In this paper, we study adaptive finite element approximations in a perturbation framework, which makes use of the existing adaptive finite element analysis of a linear symmetric elliptic problem. We prove the convergence and complexity of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2010-02-05 Lianhua He , Aihui Zhou

Fourier solvers have become efficient tools to establish structure-property relations in heterogeneous materials. Introduced as an alternative to the Finite Element (FE) method, they are based on fixed-point solutions of the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-09-01 Jan Zeman , Tom W. J. de Geus , Jaroslav Vondřejc , Ron H. J. Peerlings , Marc G. D. Geers