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The paper develops a finite element method for partial differential equations posed on hypersurfaces in $\mathbb{R}^N$, $N=2,3$. The method uses traces of bulk finite element functions on a surface embedded in a volumetric domain. The bulk…
A second-order face-centred finite volume method (FCFV) is proposed. Contrary to the more popular cell-centred and vertex-centred finite volume (FV) techniques, the proposed method defines the solution on the faces of the mesh (edges in two…
We propose a new nonconforming \(P_1\) finite element method for elliptic interface problems. The method is constructed on a locally anisotropic mixed mesh, which is generated by fitting the interface through a simple connection of…
We propose a two dimensional (2D) adaptive nodes technique for irregular regions. The method is based on equi-distribution principal and dimension reduction. The mesh generation is carried out by first producing some adaptive nodes in a…
We summarise three applications of the obstacle problem to membrane contact, elastoplastic torsion and cavitation modelling, and show how the resulting models can be solved using mixed finite elements. It is challenging to construct fixed…
In this paper, we introduce a multiscale framework based on adaptive edge basis functions to solve second-order linear elliptic PDEs with rough coefficients. One of the main results is that we prove the proposed multiscale method achieves…
A machine-learnable variational scheme using Gaussian radial basis functions (GRBFs) is presented and used to approximate linear problems on bounded and unbounded domains. In contrast to standard mesh-free methods, which use GRBFs to…
In this paper a numerical meshless method for solving the radiative transfer equations in a slab medium with an isotropic scattering is considered. The method is based on radial basis functions to approximate the solution of an…
Mesh sensitivity of finite element solution for linear elliptic partial differential equations is analyzed. A bound for the change in the finite element solution is obtained in terms of the mesh deformation and its gradient. The bound shows…
The proposed two-dimensional geometrically exact beam element extends our previous work by including the effects of shear distortion, and also of distributed forces and moments acting along the beam. The general flexibility-based…
This paper studies adaptive first-order least-squares finite element methods for second-order elliptic partial differential equations in non-divergence form. Unlike the classical finite element method which uses weak formulations of PDEs…
Conventionally, piecewise polynomials have been used in the boundary elements method (BEM) to approximate unknown boundary values. Since infinitely smooth radial basis functions (RBFs) are more stable and accurate than the polynomials for…
A semi-implicit fractional-step method that uses a staggered node layout and radial basis function-finite differences (RBF-FD) to solve the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations is developed. Polyharmonic splines (PHS) with polynomial…
This paper addresses the study of derivative-free smooth optimization problems, where the gradient information on the objective function is unavailable. Two novel general derivative-free methods are proposed and developed for minimizing…
An adapted bubble approach which is a modifiation of the residual-free bubbles (RFB) method, is proposed for the Helmhotz problem in 2D. A new two-level finite element method is introduced for the approximations of the bubble functions.…
This is the second paper on the study of gradient recovery for elliptic interface problem. In our previous work [H. Guo and X. Yang, 2016, arXiv:1607.05898], we developed gradient recovery finite element method based on body-fitted mesh. In…
The paper presents a numerical study for the finite element method with anisotropic meshes. We compare the accuracy of the numerical solutions on quasi-uniform, isotropic, and anisotropic meshes for a test problem which combines several…
In this article, a new unified duality theory is developed for Petrov-Galerkin finite element methods. This novel theory is then used to motivate goal-oriented adaptive mesh refinement strategies for use with discontinuous Petrov-Galerkin…
We developed fast direct solver for 3D Helmholtz and Maxwell equations in layered medium. The algorithm is based on the ideas of cyclic reduction for separable matrices. For the grids with major uniform part (within the survey domain in the…
This work proposes a novel finite volume paradigm, the face-centred finite volume (FCFV) method. Contrary to the popular vertex (VCFV) and cell (CCFV) centred finite volume methods, the novel FCFV defines the solution on the mesh faces…