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The aim of this paper is to provide a survey of the state of the art in the finite element approach to the Immersed Boundary Method (FE-IBM) which has been investigated by the authors during the last decade. In a unified setting, we present…

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We construct four variants of space-time finite element discretizations based on linear tensor-product and simplex-type finite elements. The resulting discretizations are continuous in space, and continuous or discontinuous in time. In a…

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We present a new formulation of the Boundary Element Method (BEM) for simulating the non-adhesive and adhesive contact between an indenter of arbitrary shape and an elastic half-space coated with an elastic layer of different material. We…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-07-06 Qiang Li , Roman Pohrt , Iakov A. Lyashenko , Valentin L. Popov

Investigating the sound field in and around ducts is an important topic in acoustics, e.g. when simulating musical instruments or the human vocal tract. In this paper a method that is based on the boundary element method in 3D combined with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-06-24 Wolfgang Kreuzer

This work illustrates the possibility to apply the Fast Fourier Transformation to obtain the integrals of the Boundary Element Method (BEM) on arbitrary shapes. The procedure is inspired by the technique used with great success within the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-09-05 Justus Benad

This paper presents a computational framework for modeling wave propagation in geometrically linear elastic materials characterized by algebraically nonlinear constitutive relations. We derive a specific form of the nonlinear wave equation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-09 S. M. Mallikarjunaiah

Slender beam-like structures frequently occur in engineering applications and often interact at discrete locations through joints or connectors. Accurate modeling of such interactions is particularly challenging when different numerical…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Ivo Steinbrecher , Nora Hagmeyer , Christoph Meier , Alexander Popp

In many applications, and in particular in seismology, realistic propagation media disperse and attenuate waves. This dissipative behavior can be taken into account by using a viscoacoustic propagation model, which incorporates a complex…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Jean-Philippe Groby , Chrysoula Tsogka

We present a novel immersed boundary method that implements acoustic perturbation theory to model an acoustically levitated droplet. Instead of resolving sound waves numerically, our hybrid method solves acoustic scattering…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-03-22 Jacqueline B. Sustiel , David G. Grier

This paper presents a class of boundary integral equation methods for the numerical solution of acoustic and electromagnetic time-domain scattering problems in the presence of unbounded penetrable interfaces in two-spatial dimensions. The…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-10-02 Ignacio Labarca , Luiz M. Faria , Carlos Pérez-Arancibia

A Fourier transform method is introduced for a class of hybrid time-frequency methods that solve the acoustic scattering problem in regimes where the solution exhibits both highly oscillatory behavior and slow decay in time. This extends…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-18 Heather Wilber , Wietse Vaes , Abinand Gopal , Gunnar Martinsson

This article investigates adaptive mesh refinement procedures for the time-domain wave equation with Neumann boundary conditions, formulated as an equivalent hypersingular boundary integral equation. Space-adaptive and time-adaptive…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-28 Alessandra Aimi , Giulia Di Credico , Heiko Gimperlein , Chiara Guardasoni

In this work, we consider an initial-boundary value problem for a time-fractional biharmonic equation in a bounded polygonal domain with a Lipschitz continuous boundary in $\mathbb{R}^2$ with clamped boundary conditions. After establishing…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-29 Shantiram Mahata , Neela Nataraj , Jean-Pierre Raymond

This article investigates residual a posteriori error estimates and adaptive mesh refinements for time-dependent boundary element methods for the wave equation. We obtain reliable estimates for Dirichlet and acoustic boundary conditions…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-10-01 Heiko Gimperlein , Ceyhun Oezdemir , David Stark , Ernst P. Stephan

Time fractional advection-dispersion equations arise as generalizations of classical integer order advection-dispersion equations and are increasingly used to model fluid flow problems through porous media. In this paper we develop an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-05-16 Carlos E. Mejía , Alejandro Piedrahita

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

In this paper, we recast the variational formulation corresponding to the single layer boundary integral operator $\operatorname{V}$ for the wave equation as a minimization problem in $L^2(\Sigma)$, where $\Sigma := \partial \Omega \times…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-12-21 Daniel Hoonhout , Richard Löscher , Olaf Steinbach , Carolina Urzúa-Torres

We study space--time isogeometric discretizations of the linear acoustic wave equation that use splines of arbitrary degree p, both in space and time. We propose a space--time variational formulation that is obtained by adding a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-08-02 Sara Fraschini , Gabriele Loli , Andrea Moiola , Giancarlo Sangalli

We present a mechanism to explicitly couple the finite-difference discretizations of 2D acoustic and isotropic elastic wave systems that are separated by straight interfaces. Such coupled simulations allow the application of the elastic…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-04-13 Longfei Gao , David Keyes

We prove strong convergence for a large class of finite element methods for the time-dependent Joule heating problem in three spatial dimensions with mixed boundary conditions on Lipschitz domains. We consider conforming subspaces for the…

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