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The conformal formulation of the Einstein constraint equations is first reviewed, and we then consider the design, analysis, and implementation of adaptive multilevel finite element-type numerical methods for the resulting coupled nonlinear…

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We propose a reduced space mixed finite element method (MFEM) built on a Skinning Eigenmode subspace and material-aware cubature scheme. Our solver is well-suited for simulating scenes with large material and geometric heterogeneities in…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Ty Trusty , Otman Benchekroun , Eitan Grinspun , Danny M. Kaufman , David I. W. Levin

In this paper, we consider an approximation method, and a novel general analysis, for second-order elliptic differential equations with heterogeneous multiscale coefficients. We obtain convergence of the Generalized Multi-scale Finite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-20 Eduardo Abreu , Ciro Diaz , Juan Galvis

Quantitative characterization of tissue properties, known as elasticity imaging, can be cast as solving an ill-posed inverse problem. The finite element methods (FEMs) in magnetic resonance elastography (MRE) imaging are based on solving a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-29 Narges Mohammadi , Marvin M. Doyley , Mujdat Cetin

The Finite Element Method (FEM) is a well-established procedure for computing approximate solutions to deterministic engineering problems described by partial differential equations. FEM produces discrete approximations of the solution with…

In our work we focus on the accurate computation of light propagation in finite size photonic crystal structures with the finite element method (FEM). We discuss how we utilize numerical concepts like high-order finite elements, transparent…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-13 Jan Pomplun , Lin Zschiedrich , Roland Klose , Frank Schmidt , Sven Burger

Chaotic free surface flows are challenging problems to simulate numerically, mainly due to the significant changes in geometry and frequent topological changes. Methods that track the evolution of the fluid in a Lagrangian formulation are a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-12-24 Thomas Leyssens , Jonathan Lambrechts , Jean-François Remacle

Motivated by problems where the response is needed at select localized regions in a large computational domain, we devise a novel finite element discretization that results in exponential convergence at pre-selected points. The two key…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-08-03 Murthy N. Guddati , Vladimir Druskin , Ali Vaziri Astaneh

The Finite Element Method (FEM) is the gold standard for spatial discretization in numerical simulations for a wide spectrum of real-world engineering problems. Prototypical areas of interest include linear heat transfer and linear…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-01-10 Marcelo Forets , Daniel Freire Caporale , Jorge M. Pérez Zerpa

The eXtended Finite Element Method (XFEM) is used to solve interface problems with an unfitted mesh. We present an implementation of the XFEM in the FEM-library deal.II. The main parts of the implementation are (i) the appropriate…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-07-16 Thomas Carraro , Sven Wetterauer

Multiscale Finite Element Methods (MsFEM) are finite element type approaches dedicated to multiscale problems. They first compute local, oscillatory, problem-dependent basis functions which generate a specific discretization space, and next…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-02-08 Rutger A. Biezemans , Claude Le Bris , Frederic Legoll , Alexei Lozinski

Numerical homogenization for mechanical multiscale modeling by means of the finite element method (FEM) is an elegant way of obtaining structure-property relations, if the behavior of the constituents of the lower scale is well understood.…

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We present an interval-based approach for parameter identification in structural static inverse problems. The proposed inverse formulation exploits the Interval Finite Element Method (IFEM) combined with adjoint-based optimization. The…

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In this paper, the generalized finite element method (GFEM) for solving second order elliptic equations with rough coefficients is studied. New optimal local approximation spaces for GFEMs based on local eigenvalue problems involving a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-12-22 Chupeng Ma , Robert Scheichl , Tim Dodwell

Recovered finite element methods (R-FEM) have been recently introduced for meshes consisting of simplicial and/or box-type meshes. Here, utilising the flexibility of R-FEM framework, we extend their definition on polygonal and polyhedral…

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This paper deals with the numerical approximation of the biharmonic inverse source problem in an abstract setting in which the measurement data is finite-dimensional. This unified framework in particular covers the conforming and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-15 Devika Shylaja , M. T. Nair

The Finite element method (FEM) has long served as the computational backbone for topology optimization (TO). However, for designing structures undergoing large deformations, conventional FEM-based TO often exhibits numerical instabilities…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Rahul Kumar Padhy , Aaditya Chandrasekhar , Krishnan Suresh

Achieving accurate numerical results of hydrodynamic loads based on the potential-flow theory is very challenging for structures with sharp edges, due to the singular behavior of the local-flow velocities. In this paper, we introduce the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-23 Ying Wang , Yanlin Shao , Jikang Chen , Hui Liang

In this paper, we define new unfitted finite element methods for numerically approximating the solution of surface partial differential equations using bulk finite elements. The key idea is that the $n$-dimensional hypersurface, $\Gamma…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-03-21 Klaus Deckelnick , Charles M. Elliott , Thomas Ranner

In this paper, we propose a new approach -- the Tempered Finite Element Method (TFEM) -- that extends the Finite Element Method (FEM) to classes of meshes that include zero-measure or nearly degenerate elements for which standard FEM…

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