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We develop a cut finite element method (CutFEM) for convection-diffusion problems posed on mixed-dimensional domains, i.e., unions of manifolds of different dimensions arranged in a hierarchical structure where lower-dimensional components…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-09 Erik Burman , Peter Hansbo , Mats G. Larson , Karl Larsson , Shantiram Mahata

Reduction of computational cost of solutions is a key issue to crack identification or crack propagation problems. One of the solution is to avoid re-meshing the domain when the crack position changes or when the crack extends. To avoid…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-02-12 Olivier Bodart , Valérie Cayol , Sébastien Court , Jonas Koko

We present a 3D hybrid method which combines the Finite Element Method (FEM) and the Spectral Boundary Integral method (SBIM) to model nonlinear problems in unbounded domains. The flexibility of FEM is used to model the complex,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-02-18 Gabriele Albertini , Ahmed Elbanna , David S. Kammer

Typical areas of application of explicit dynamics are impact, crash test, and most importantly, wave propagation simulations. Due to the numerically highly demanding nature of these problems, efficient automatic mesh generators and…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Junqi Zhang , Ankit Ankit , Hauke Gravenkamp , Sascha Eisenträger , Chongmin Song

With the development of multi-layer elastic systems in the field of engineering mechanics, the corresponding variational inequality theory and algorithm design have received more attention and research. In this study, a class of equivalent…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-11 Zhizhuo Zhang , Mikaël Barboteu , Xiaobing Nie , Serge Dumont , Mahmoud Abdel-Aty , Jinde Cao

The combination of Finite Element Method (FEM) simulation and experimental photo-elasticity provides both qualitative and quantitative information about the stress field in a polymer composite and particularly along the fibre-matrix…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 H. Matthias Deuschle , Falk K. Wittel , Henry Gerhard , Gerhard Busse , Bernd-H. Kroeplin

Numerical computation of harmonic forms (typically called harmonic fields in three space dimensions) arises in various areas, including computer graphics and computational electromagnetics. The finite element exterior calculus framework…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-06-24 Alan Demlow

We propose and analyze an adaptive finite element method for a phase-field model of dynamic brittle fracture. The model couples a second-order hyperbolic equation for elastodynamics with the Ambrosio-Tortorelli regularization of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-08 Ram Manohar , S. M. Mallikarjuaniah

This paper presents the implementation of the eXtended Finite Element Method (XFEM) in the general-purpose commercial software package COMSOL Multiphysics for multi-field thermo-hydro-mechanical problems in discontinuous porous media. To…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2021-12-23 Ahmad Jafari , Mohammad Vahab , Pooyan Broumand , Nasser Khalili

The rigorous convergence analysis of adaptive finite element methods for regularized variational models of quasi-static brittle fracture in strain-limiting elastic solids is presented. This work introduces two novel adaptive mesh refinement…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-19 Ram Manohar , S. M. Mallikarjunaiah

This paper presents an adaptive strategy for phase-field simulations with transition to fracture. The phase-field equations are solved only in small subdomains around crack tips to determine propagation, while an XFEM discretization is used…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Alba Muixí , Onofre Marco , Antonio Rodríguez-Ferran , Sonia Fernández-Méndez

In this paper, we compute the band structure of one- and two-dimensional phononic composites using the extended finite element method (X-FEM) on structured higher-order (spectral) finite element meshes. On using partition-of-unity…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-11-09 Eric B. Chin , Amir Ashkan Mokhtari , Ankit Srivastava , N. Sukumar

A physics-informed machine learning framework based on holomorphic neural networks is introduced for detecting cracks in two-dimensional solids from strain or displacement data. Crack detection is formulated as an inverse problem in which…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Jonas Hund , Nicolas Cuenca , Tito Andriollo

This work presents the Griffith-type phase-field formation at large deformation in the framework of adaptive edge-based smoothed finite element method (ES-FEM) for the first time. Therein the phase-field modeling of fractures has attracted…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-11-09 Fucheng Tian , Xiaoliang Tang , Tingyu Xu , Liangbin Li

This paper presents a technique for stress and fracture analysis by using the scaled boundary finite element method (SBFEM) with quadtree mesh of high-order elements. The cells of the quadtree mesh are modelled as scaled boundary polygons…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-19 Hou Man , Chongmin Song , Sundararajan Natarajan , Ean Tat Ooi , Carolin Birk

This study presented a type of image processing code which is used for sharpening photoelastic fringe patterns of transparent materials in photoelastic experiences to determine the stress distribution. C-Sharp software was utilized for…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-01-12 Seyedmeysam Khaleghian , Anahita Emami , Nasser Soltani

We revisit the cell-based smoothed finite element method (SFEM) for quadrilateral elements and extend it to arbitrary polygons and polyhedrons in 2D and 3D, respectively. We highlight the similarity between the SFEM and the virtual element…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-10-08 Sundararajan Natarajan , Stéphane P. A. Bordas , Ean Tat Ooi

The recently proposed soft finite element method (SoftFEM) reduces the stiffness (condition numbers), consequently improving the overall approximation accuracy. The method subtracts a least-square term that penalizes the gradient jumps…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-02-27 Jipei Chen , Victor M. Calo , Quanling Deng

The paper is concerned with the development of efficient and accurate solution procedures for the isogeometric boundary element method (BEM) when applied to problems that contain inclusions that have elastic properties different to the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-10-28 Gernot Beer , Eugenio Ruocco , Christian Duenser , Vincenzo Mallardo

Particle breakage due to collisional interactions plays a vital role in the development of several phenomena in science and engineering. The nonlinear collisional breakage equations (NCBEs) are a significant set of equations in this…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Arushi Arushi , Naresh Kumar