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We propose two variants of the overlapping additive Schwarz method for the finite element discretiza- tion of the elliptic problem in 3D with highly heterogeneous coefficients. The methods are efficient and simple to construct using the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-11-04 Erik Eikeland , Leszek Marcinkowski , Talal Rahman

We consider the reliable implementation of high-order unfitted finite element methods on Cartesian meshes with hanging nodes for elliptic interface problems. We construct a reliable algorithm to merge small interface elements with their…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-16 Zhiming Chen , Yong Liu

We introduce a new class of unfitted finite element methods with high order accurate numerical integration over curved surfaces and volumes which are only implicitly defined by level set functions. An unfitted finite element method which is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-12-10 Christoph Lehrenfeld

The paper develops a finite element method for partial differential equations posed on hypersurfaces in $\mathbb{R}^N$, $N=2,3$. The method uses traces of bulk finite element functions on a surface embedded in a volumetric domain. The bulk…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-19 Alexey Y. Chernyshenko , Maxim A. Olshanskii

In order to reduce the computational cost of the simulation of electromagnetic responses in geophysical settings that involve highly heterogeneous media, we develop a multiscale finite volume method with oversampling for the quasi-static…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-10-10 Luz Angelica Caudillo Mata , Eldad Haber , Christoph Schwarzbach

The convergence and optimality of adaptive mixed finite element methods for the Poisson equation are established in this paper. The main difficulty for mixed finite element methods is the lack of minimization principle and thus the failure…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2010-01-12 Long Chen , Michael Holst , Jinchao Xu

A high order cut finite element method is formulated for solving the elastic wave equation. Both a single domain problem and an interface problem are treated. The boundary or interface are allowed to cut through the background mesh. To…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-04-03 Simon Sticko , Gustav Ludvigsson , Gunilla Kreiss

We survey the Nitsche's master-slave finite element method for elastic contact problems analysed in [2]. The main steps of the error analysis are recalled and numerical benchmark computations are presented.

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-12-19 Tom Gustafsson , Rolf Stenberg , Juha Videman

Motivated by many applications in complex domains with boundaries exposed to large topological changes or deformations, fictitious domain methods regard the actual domain of interest as being embedded in a fixed Cartesian background. This…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-03-17 Georgios Katsouleas , Efthymios N. Karatzas , Fotios Travlopanos

Nitsche's method is a standard device for weakly imposing Dirichlet boundary conditions, but for the stabilized nonsymmetric formulation the available $L^2$-error analysis for Poisson's equation still predicts a half-order loss, whereas…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Gang Chen , Chaoran Liu , Yangwen Zhang

As inelastic structures are ubiquitous in many engineering fields, a central task in computational mechanics is to develop accurate, robust and efficient tools for their analysis. Motivated by the poor performances exhibited by standard…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-09-21 Nicola A. Nodargi

We propose a method for efficiently coupling the finite element method with atomistic simulations, while using molecular dynamics or kinetic Monte Carlo techniques. Our method can dynamically build an optimized unstructured mesh that…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2018-05-23 Mihkel Veske , Andreas Kyritsakis , Kristjan Eimre , Vahur Zadin , Alvo Aabloo , Flyura Djurabekova

Nitsche's method is a well-established approach for weak enforcement of boundary conditions for partial differential equations (PDEs). It has many desirable properties, including the preservation of variational consistency and the fact that…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-08 Joseph Benzaken , John A. Evans , Rasmus Tamstorf

A new numerical approach is proposed for the simulation of coupled three-dimensional and one-dimensional elliptic equations (3D-1D coupling) arising from dimensionality reduction of 3D-3D problems with thin inclusions. The method is based…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-11-24 Stefano Berrone , Denise Grappein , Stefano Scialo'

We consider adaptive finite element methods for solving a multiscale system consisting of a macroscale model comprising a system of reaction-diffusion partial differential equations coupled to a microscale model comprising a system of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-22 A. Johansson , J. H. Chaudry , V. Carey , D. Estep , V. Ginting , M. Larson , S. Tavener

We construct a finite element approximation of a strain-limiting elastic model on a bounded open domain in $\mathbb{R}^d$, $d \in \{2,3\}$. The sequence of finite element approximations is shown to exhibit strong convergence to the unique…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-02 Andrea Bonito , Vivette Girault , Endre Süli

We consider the reliable implementation of an adaptive high-order unfitted finite element method on Cartesian meshes for solving elliptic interface problems with geometrically curved singularities. We extend our previous work on the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-03-07 Zhiming Chen , Yong Liu

The finite element method is widely used in simulations of various fields. However, when considering domains whose extent differs strongly in different spatial directions a finite element simulation becomes computationally very expensive…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Jonas Bundschuh , Laura A. M. D'Angelo , Herbert De Gersem

A finite element method for elliptic problems with discontinuous coefficients is presented. The discontinuity is assumed to take place along a closed smooth curve. The proposed method allows to deal with meshes that are not adapted to the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2007-07-12 Gunther H. Peichl , Rachid Touzani

This paper develops a smoothing-based postprocessing method for superconvergence in finite element methods. The method applies a few smoothing iterations, such as damped Jacobi, Gauss-Seidel, or conjugate gradient, with initial guess being…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-07 Yuwen Li , Han Shui , Ludmil Zikatanov