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This paper presents a new finite element (FE) formulation for liquid shells that is based on an explicit, 3D surface discretization using $C^1$-continuous finite elements constructed from NURBS interpolation. Both displacement-based and…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2017-01-04 Roger A. Sauer , Thang X. Duong , Kranthi K. Mandadapu , David J. Steigmann

The oversampling multiscale finite element method (MsFEM) is one of the most popular methods for simulating composite materials and flows in porous media which may have many scales. But the method may be inapplicable or inefficient in some…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-11-16 Weibing Deng , Haijun Wu

The finite element method (FEM) is a cornerstone numerical technique for solving partial differential equations (PDEs). Here, we present $\textbf{Qu-FEM}$, a fault-tolerant era quantum algorithm for the finite element method. In contrast to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-22 Ahmad M. Alkadri , Tyler D. Kharazi , K. Birgitta Whaley , Kranthi K. Mandadapu

This paper uses the HCT finite element method and mesh adaptation technology to solve the nonlinear plate bending problem and conducts error analysis on the iterative method, including a priori and a posteriori error estimates. Our…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-17 Akakpo A. Wilfried , Houédanou K. Wilfrid

We present in this paper a rigorous theoretical framework to show stability, convergence and accuracy of improved edge-based and face-based smoothed finite element methods (bESFEM and bFS-FEM) for nearly-incompressible elasticity problems.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-11-26 Thanh Hai Ong , Claire E. Heaney , Chang-Kye Lee , G. R. Liu , H. Nguyen-Xuan

We demonstrate the ability of a stabilized finite element method, inspired by the weighted Nitsche approach, to alleviate spurious traction oscillations at interlaminar interfaces in multi-ply multi-directional composite laminates. In…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2020-08-21 Gourab Ghosh , Ravindra Duddu , Chandrasekhar Annavarapu

This paper presents the first time implementation of the eXtended Finite Element Method (XFEM) in the general purpose commercial software COMSOL Multiphysics. An enrichment strategy is proposed, consistent with the structure of the…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Ahmad Jafari , Pooyan Broumand , Mohammad Vahab , Nasser Khalili

In this chapter, we demonstrate a general formulation of the Finite Element Method allowing to calculate the diffraction efficiencies from the electromagnetic field diffracted by arbitrarily shaped gratings embedded in a multilayered stack…

Optics · Physics 2013-02-06 Guillaume Demésy , Frédéric Zolla , André Nicolet , Benjamin Vial

Block copolymers provide a wonderful platform in studying the soft condensed matter systems. Many fascinating ordered structures have been discovered in bulk and confined systems. Among various theories, the self-consistent field theory…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-05-01 Huayi Wei , Ming Xu , Wei Si , Kai Jiang

In this work, we employ the Constraint Energy Minimizing Generalized Multiscale Finite Element Method (CEM-GMsFEM) to solve the problem of linear heterogeneous poroelasticity with coefficients of high contrast. The proposed method makes use…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-09-04 Shubin Fu , Robert Altmann , Eric T. Chung , Roland Maier , Daniel Peterseim , Sai-Mang Pun

We compare convergence of isogeometric analysis (IGA), a spline modification of finite element method (FEM), with FEM in the context of our real space code for ab-initio electronic structure calculations of non-periodic systems. The…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-01-07 Robert Cimrman , Matyáš Novák , Radek Kolman , Miroslav Tůma , Jiří Vackář

As inelastic structures are ubiquitous in many engineering fields, a central task in computational mechanics is to develop accurate, robust and efficient tools for their analysis. Motivated by the poor performances exhibited by standard…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-09-21 Nicola A. Nodargi

The Finite Element Method (FEM) is a powerful modeling tool for predicting the behavior of soft robots. However, its use for control can be difficult for non-specialists of numerical computation: it requires an optimization of the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-24 Etienne Ménager , Tanguy Navez , Olivier Goury , Christian Duriez

Since the 1960's the finite element method emerged as a powerful tool for the numerical simulation of countless physical phenomena or processes in applied sciences. One of the reasons for this undeniable success is the great versatility of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-12-05 Vitoriano Ruas

We consider mixed finite element methods for linear elasticity where the symmetry of the stress tensor is weakly enforced. Both an a priori and a posteriori error analysis are given for several known families of methods that are uniformly…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-02-01 Philip L. Lederer , Rolf Stenberg

This letter aims at resolving the issues raised in the recent short communication [1] and answered by [2] by proposing a systematic approximation scheme based on non-mapped shape functions, which both allows to fully exploit the unique…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2011-07-20 Stephane PA Bordas , Sundararajan Natarajan

In this paper, we present a Constraint Energy Minimizing Generalized Multiscale Finite Element Method (CEM-GMsFEM) for parabolic equations with multiscale coefficients, arising from applications in porous media. We will present the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-06-14 Mengnan Li , Eric Chung , Lijian Jiang

Three different displacement based finite element formulations over arbitrary polygons are studied in this paper. The formulations considered are: the conventional polygonal finite element method (FEM) with Laplace interpolants, the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-09-06 Sundararajan Natarajan , Ean Tat Ooi , Irene Chiong , Chongmin Song

This document summarizes the main concepts of the finite element (FE) theory and constitutive relations as implemented in the open-source code phase-field multiphysics materials simulator PHIMATS https://github.com/ahcomat/PHIMATS. PHIMATS…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-15 Abdelrahman Hussein

In this paper, a novel and effective formulation based on isogeometric approach (IGA) and Refined Plate Theory (RPT) is proposed to study the behavior of laminated composite plates. Using many kinds of higher-order distributed functions,…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2014-03-04 Loc V. Tran , Chien H. Thai , Buntara S. Gan , H. Nguyen-Xuan