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Within finite element models of fluids, vector-valued fields such as velocity or momentum variables are commonly discretised using the Raviart-Thomas elements. However, when using the lowest-order quadrilateral Raviart-Thomas elements,…
This study explores the use of fractional calculus as a possible tool to model wave propagation in complex, heterogeneous media. We illustrate the methodology by focusing on elastic wave propagation in a one-dimensional periodic rod. The…
We develop a fourth order accurate finite difference method for the three dimensional elastic wave equation in isotropic media with the piecewise smooth material property. In our model, the material property can be discontinuous at curved…
This study presents a finite difference method (FDM) to model the electromagnetic field propagation in eccentric coaxial waveguides filled with lossy uniaxially anisotropic media. The formulation utilizes conformal transformation to map the…
In this paper, we present a finite-element-extended boundary condition (FE-EBC) method for an efficient calculation of the electromagnetic wave scattering from inhomogeneous magneto-dielectric objects. To this end, we apply the hierarchical…
We study two-dimensional wave propagation in materials whose properties vary periodically in one direction only. High order homogenization is carried out to derive a dispersive effective medium approximation. One-dimensional materials with…
In this work, we develop variational formulations of Petrov-Galerkin type for one-dimensional fractional boundary value problems involving either a Riemann-Liouville or Caputo derivative of order $\alpha\in(3/2, 2)$ in the leading term and…
Immersed boundary methods have attracted substantial interest in the last decades due to their potential for computations involving complex geometries. Often these cannot be efficiently discretized using boundary-fitted finite elements.…
We propose a linear finite-element discretization of Dirichlet problems for static Hamilton-Jacobi equations on unstructured triangulations. The discretization is based on simplified localized Dirichlet problems that are solved by a local…
High-frequency wave propagation has many important applications in acoustics, elastodynamics, and electromagnetics. Unfortunately, the finite element discretization for these problems suffers from significant numerical pollution errors that…
An initial-boundary value problem for the time-fractional diffusion equation is discretized in space using continuous piecewise-linear finite elements on a polygonal domain with a re-entrant corner. Known error bounds for the case of a…
In this paper we develop a finite element method for acoustic wave propagation in Drude-type metamaterials. The governing equation is written as a symmetrizable hyperbolic system with auxiliary variables. The standard mixed finite elements…
Waves are all around us--be it in the form of sound, electromagnetic radiation, water waves, or earthquakes. Their study is an important basic tool across engineering and science disciplines. Every wave solver serving the computational…
In this work we propose an efficient and accurate multi-scale optical simulation algorithm by applying a numerical version of slowly varying envelope approximation in FEM. Specifically, we employ the fast iterative method to quickly compute…
A finite element method (FEM) for solving the complex valued k({\omega}) vs. {\omega} dispersion curve of a 3D metamaterial/photonic crystal system is presented. This 3D method is a generalization of a previously reported 2D eigenvalue…
In this paper, a generalized finite element method (GFEM) with optimal local approximation spaces for solving high-frequency heterogeneous Helmholtz problems is systematically studied. The local spaces are built from selected eigenvectors…
This article concerns the weak Galerkin mixed finite element method (WG-MFEM) for second order elliptic equations on 2D domains with curved boundary. The Neumann boundary condition is considered since it becomes the essential boundary…
A finite element approach to solve numerically the Takagi-Taupin equations expressed in a weak form is presented and applied to simulate X-ray reflectivity curves, spatial intensity distributions and focusing properties of bent perfect…
This paper presents a boundary element formulation for the solution of the Mild-Slope equation in wave propagation problems with variable water depth in one direction. Based on the Green's function approximation proposed by Belibassakis…
This chapter reviews and compares discontinuous Galerkin time-stepping methods for the numerical approximation of second-order ordinary differential equations, particularly those stemming from space finite element discretization of wave…