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This article's main scope is the presentation of a computational method for the simulation of contact problems within the finite element method involving complex and rough surfaces. The approach relies on the MPJR (eMbedded Profile for…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-04-03 Jacopo Bonari , Marco Paggi , Daniele Dini

The damping of built-up structures stems largely from the microscopic dry frictional interactions in the contact interfaces. The accurate prediction of friction damping has been an important scientific aim of the past several decades.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-17 Hendrik D. Linder , Johann Gross , Malte Krack

We introduce a model of friction between two contacting (stationary or co-sliding) rough surfaces, each comprising a random ensemble of polydisperse hemispherical bumps. In the simplest version of the model, the bumps experience on contact…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-05-10 Suzanne M Fielding

Finite element methods provide accurate and efficient methods for the numerical solution of partial differential equations by means of restricting variational problems to finite-dimensional approximating spaces. However, they do not…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-24 Robert C. Kirby , John D. Stephens

We study the mechanical contact between a deformable body with a wavy surface and a rigid flat taking into account pressurized fluid trapped in the interface. A finite element model is formulated for a general problem of trapped fluid for…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-03-23 Andrei G. Shvarts , Vladislav A. Yastrebov

This paper is devoted to a study of time-dependent hemivariational inequality. We prove existence and uniqueness of its solution, provide fully discrete scheme and reformulate this scheme as a series of nonsmooth optimization problems. This…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-03-30 Michal Jureczka , Anna Ochal , Weimin Han

In this paper, we study the numerical algorithm for a nonlinear poroelasticity model with nonlinear stress-strain relations. By using variable substitution, the original problem can be reformulated to a new coupled fluid-fluid system, that…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-05-17 Zhihao Ge , Hairun Li , Tingting Li

We develop two new continuum contact models for coupled adhesion and friction, and discuss them in the context of existing models proposed in the literature. Our new models are able to describe sliding friction even under tensile normal…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Janine C. Mergel , Riad Sahli , Julien Scheibert , Roger A. Sauer

We solve elliptic systems of equations posed on highly heterogeneous materials. Examples of this class of problems are composite structures and geological processes. We focus on a model problem which is a second-order elliptic equation with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-12-11 Leonardo A. Poveda , Sebastian Huepo , Victor M. Calo , Juan Galvis

In this paper a new primal-dual mixed finite element method is introduced, aimed to model multiscale problems with several geometric subregions in the domain of interest. In each of these regions porous media fluid flow takes place, but…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-08-21 Fernando A Morales

The biharmonic equation with Dirichlet and Neumann boundary conditions discretized using the mixed finite element method and piecewise linear (with the possible exception of boundary triangles) finite elements on triangular elements has…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-04-21 Oded Stein , Eitan Grinspun , Alec Jacobson , Max Wardetzky

The Finite Elements with Switch Detection (FESD) is a high-accuracy method for the numerical simulation and solution of optimal control problems subject to discontinuous ODEs. In this article, we extend the FESD method [Nurkanovi\'c et al.,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-29 Armin Nurkanović , Jonathan Frey , Anton Pozharskiy , Moritz Diehl

Despite its numerical challenges, finite element method is used to compute viscous fluid flow. A consensus on the cause of numerical problems has been reached; however, general algorithms---allowing a robust and accurate simulation for any…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2019-02-05 Bilen Emek Abali

Dynamics simulation with frictional contacts is important for a wide range of applications, from cloth simulation to object manipulation. Recent methods using smoothed lagged friction forces have enabled robust and differentiable simulation…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-08-01 Egor Larionov , Andreas Longva , Uri M. Ascher , Jan Bender , Dinesh K. Pai

We propose an accurate and energy-stable parametric finite element method for solving the sharp-interface continuum model of solid-state dewetting in three-dimensional space. The model describes the motion of the film\slash vapor interface…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-04 Weizhu Bao , Quan Zhao

We analyze an adaptive finite element/boundary element procedure for scalar elastoplastic interface problems involving friction, where a nonlinear uniformly monotone operator such as the p-Laplacian is coupled to the linear Laplace equation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-08-13 Heiko Gimperlein , Matthias Maischak , Elmar Schrohe , Ernst P. Stephan

This paper revisits the fundamental equations for the solution of the frictionless unilateral normal contact problem between a rough rigid surface and a linear elastic half-plane using the boundary element method (BEM). After recasting the…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-02 A. Bemporad , M. Paggi

We consider a mixed finite element method for approximating the solution of nearly incompressible elasticity and Stokes equations. The finite element method is based on quadrilateral and hexahedral triangulation using primal and dual…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-10-23 Bishnu P. Lamichhane

In this paper, we consider a monolithic approach to handle coupled fluid-structure interaction problems with different hyperelastic models in an all-at-once manner. We apply Newton's method in the outer iteration dealing with nonlinearities…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-08-19 Ulrich Langer , Huidong Yang

We study some numerical methods for solving second order elliptic problem with interface. We introduce an immersed interface finite element method based on the `broken' $P_1$-nonconforming piecewise linear polynomials on interface…

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