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We develop a new optimisation technique that combines multiresolution subdivision surfaces for boundary description with immersed finite elements for the discretisation of the primal and adjoint problems of optimisation. Similar to wavelets…

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We introduce a new abstraction for the representation and solution of multi-domain problems using finite element methods. This is an advance over previous work in that it achieves a single higher-level abstraction that represents…

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Partial differential equations (PDEs) are central to describing and modelling complex physical systems that arise in many disciplines across science and engineering. However, in many realistic applications PDE modelling provides an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Nacime Bouziani , David A. Ham

For most finite element simulations, boundary-conforming meshes have significant advantages in terms of accuracy or efficiency. This is particularly true for complex domains. However, with increased complexity of the domain, generating a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-07 Jan Helmig , Fabian Key , Marek Behr , Stefanie Elgeti

Modern distributed data processing systems struggle to balance performance, maintainability, and developer productivity when integrating machine learning at scale. These challenges intensify in large collaborative environments due to high…

Modern computing systems are capable of exascale calculations, which are revolutionizing the development and application of high-fidelity numerical models in computational science and engineering. While these systems continue to grow in…

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We describe a set of lower-level abstractions to improve performance on modern large scale heterogeneous systems. These provide portable access to system- and hardware-dependent features, automatically apply dynamic optimizations at run…

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A new class of implicit-explicit (IMEX) methods combined with a p-adaptive mixed finite element formulation is proposed to simulate the diffusion of reacting species. Hierarchical polynomial functions are used to construct an…

In this work, we investigate the performance CutFEM as a high fidelity solver as well as we construct a competent and economical reduced order solver for PDE-constrained optimization problems in parametrized domains that live in a fixed…

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A numerical framework is developed to solve various types of PDEs on complicated domains, including steady and time-dependent, non-linear and non-local PDEs, with different boundary conditions that can also include non-linear and non-local…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-07-13 Jonna C. Roden , Rory D. Mills-Williams , John W. Pearson , Benjamin D. Goddard

We present an implementation of the trimmed serendipity finite element family, using the open source finite element package Firedrake. The new elements can be used seamlessly within the software suite for problems requiring $H^1$, \hcurl,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-11-11 Justin Crum , Cyrus Cheng , David A. Ham , Lawrence Mitchell , Robert C. Kirby , Joshua A. Levine , Andrew Gillette

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…

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The implementation of efficient multigrid preconditioners for elliptic partial differential equations (PDEs) is a challenge due to the complexity of the resulting algorithms and corresponding computer code. For sophisticated finite element…

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An important step in shape optimization with partial differential equation constraints is to adapt the geometry during each optimization iteration. Common strategies are to employ mesh-deformation or re-meshing, where one or the other…

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In this work, we present an adaptive unfitted finite element scheme that combines the aggregated finite element method with parallel adaptive mesh refinement. We introduce a novel scalable distributed-memory implementation of the resulting…

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Vectorization is increasingly important to achieve high performance on modern hardware with SIMD instructions. Assembly of matrices and vectors in the finite element method, which is characterized by iterating a local assembly kernel over…

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We consider within a finite element approach the usage of different adaptively refined meshes for different variables in systems of nonlinear, time-depended PDEs. To resolve different solution behaviours of these variables, the meshes can…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2010-05-27 Thomas Witkowski , Axel Voigt

We present an efficient algorithmic framework for constructing multi-level hp-bases that uses a data-oriented approach that easily extends to any number of dimensions and provides a natural framework for performance-optimized…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-27 Philipp Kopp , Ernst Rank , Victor M. Calo , Stefan Kollmannsberger

We propose a two-scale finite element method designed for heterogeneous microstructures. Our approach exploits domain diffeomorphisms between the microscopic structures to gain computational efficiency. By using a conveniently constructed…

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