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We present an enhanced immersed interface method for simulating incompressible fluid flows in thin gaps between closely spaced immersed boundaries. This regime, common in engineered structures such as including tribological interfaces and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-17 Michael J. Facci , Qi Sun , Boyce E. Griffith

A boundary element formulation is developed to determine the complex stress intensity factors associated with cracks on the interface between dissimilar materials. This represents an extension of the methodology developed previously by the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2010-03-02 Ali R. Hadjesfandiari , Gary F. Dargush

The immersed interface method (IIM) for models of fluid flow and fluid-structure interaction imposes jump conditions that capture stress discontinuities generated by forces that are concentrated along immersed boundaries. Most prior work…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-04 Michael J. Facci , Ebrahim M. Kolahdouz , Boyce E. Griffith

This paper investigates an elastic dislocation problem within a bounded and multi-layered solid governed by the Lam\'e system. We address the simultaneous reconstruction of the faults, the jumps in displacement and traction fields across…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-28 Huaian Diao , Hongyu Liu , Qingle Meng

In this paper, we propose an extended mixed finite element method for elliptic interface problems. By adding some stabilization terms, we present a mixed approximation form based on Brezzi-Douglas-Marini element space and the piecewise…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-14 Pei Cao , Jinru Chen , Feng Wang

A long-standing goal of materials science is to understand, predict and control the evolution of microstructures in crystalline materials. Most microstructure evolution is controlled by interface motion; hence, the establishment of rigorous…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-02-14 Jian Han , David J. Srolovitz , Marco Salvalaglio

In this paper, we discuss the second-order finite element method (FEM) and finite difference method (FDM) for numerically solving elliptic cross-interface problems characterized by vertical and horizontal straight lines, piecewise constant…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-04 Qiwei Feng

We define a new finite element method for a steady state elliptic problem with discontinuous diffusion coefficients where the meshes are not aligned with the interface. We prove optimal error estimates in the $L^2$ norm and $H^1$ weighted…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-10-18 Johnny Guzman , Manuel A. Sanchez , Marcus Sarkis

This paper introduces a sharp-interface approach to simulating fluid-structure interaction involving flexible bodies described by general nonlinear material models and across a broad range of mass density ratios. This new flexible-body…

This paper investigates an elliptic interface problem with discontinuous diffusion coefficients on unfitted meshes, employing the CutFEM method. The main contribution is the a posteriori error analysis based on equilibrated fluxes belonging…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Daniela Capatina , Aimene Gouasmi

We develop an immersed boundary (IB) method for modeling flows around fixed or moving rigid bodies that is suitable for a broad range of Reynolds numbers, including steady Stokes flow. The spatio-temporal discretization of the fluid…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-03-02 B. Kallemov , A. Pal Singh Bhalla , B. E. Griffith , A. Donev

We model a slip boundary condition at fluid-solid interface of an arbitrary geometry in smoothed particle hydrodynamics and smoothed dissipative particle dynamics simulations. Under an assumption of linear profile of the tangential velocity…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-03-14 Xinwei Cai , Zhen Li , Xin Bian

A posteriori error estimator is derived for an elliptic interface problem in the fictitious domain formulation with distributed Lagrange multiplier considering a discontinuous Lagrange multiplier finite element space. A posteriori error…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-02 Najwa Alshehri , Daniele Boffi , Lucia Gastaldi

This work outlines a new multi-physics-compatible immersed rigid body method for Eulerian finite-volume simulations. To achieve this, rigid bodies are represented as a diffuse scalar field and an interface seeding method is employed to…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-03-15 Tim Wallis , Philip Barton , Nikolaos Nikiforakis

We develop a new finite element method for solving planar elasticity problems involving of heterogeneous materials with a mesh not necessarily aligning with the interface of the materials. This method is based on the `broken'…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-23 Do Y. Kwak , Sangwon Jin , Dae H. Kyeong

A novel Douglas alternating direction implicit (ADI) method is proposed in this work to solve a two-dimensional (2D) heat equation with interfaces. The ADI scheme is a powerful finite difference method for solving parabolic equations, due…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-07-01 Shan Zhao

There is scientific and industrial interest in understanding how geologic faults respond to transient sources of fluid. Natural and artificial sources can elevate pore fluid pressure on the fault frictional interface, which may induce slip.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-09-06 Robert C. Viesca

A stabilized Lagrange multiplier method for second order elliptic interface problems is presented in the framework of mortar method. The requirement of LBB (Ladyzhenskaya-Babu\v{s}ka-Brezzi) condition for mortar method is alleviated by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-05-31 Sanjib Kumar Acharya , Ajit Patel

In this paper, we propose and analyze the least squares finite element methods for the linear elasticity interface problem in the stress-displacement system on unfitted meshes. We consider the cases that the interface is $C^2$ or polygonal,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-16 Fanyi Yang

For explicit interface tracking in three dimensions, we propose a linear MARS method that (a) represents the interface by a partially ordered set of glued surfaces and approximates each glued surface with a triangular mesh, (b) maintains an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-12 Yunhao Qiu , Qinghai Zhang