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This article presents new immersed finite element (IFE) methods for solving the popular second order elliptic interface problems on structured Cartesian meshes even if the involved interfaces have nontrivial geometries. These IFE methods…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-29 Tao Lin , Yanping Lin , Xu Zhang

We present an analysis for a mixed finite element method for the bending problem of Koiter shell. We derive an error estimate showing that when the geometrical coefficients of the shell mid-surface satisfy certain conditions the finite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-03-28 Sheng Zhang

We develop a cut finite element method for the Bernoulli free boundary problem. The free boundary, represented by an approximate signed distance function on a fixed background mesh, is allowed to intersect elements in an arbitrary fashion.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-04-05 Erik Burman , Daniel Elfverson , Peter Hansbo , Mats G. Larson , Karl Larsson

Wide variety of engineering design tasks can be formulated as constrained optimization problems where the shape and topology of the domain are optimized to reduce costs while satisfying certain constraints. Several mathematical approaches…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-03-10 Igor Ostanin , Denis Zorin , Ivan Oseledets

Grids are a general representation for capturing regularly-spaced information, but since they are uniform in space, they cannot dynamically allocate resolution to regions with varying levels of detail. There has been some exploration of…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Julian Knodt , Seung-Hwan Baek

In this article we propose a scalable shape optimization algorithm which is tailored for large scale problems and geometries represented by hierarchically refined meshes. Weak scalability and grid independent convergence is achieved via a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-05-09 Jose Pinzon , Martin Siebenborn

When solving elliptic partial differential equations in a region containing immersed interfaces (possibly evolving in time), it is often desirable to approximate the problem using an independent background discretisation, not aligned with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-29 Luca Heltai , Nella Rotundo

We consider linear reaction-diffusion equations posed on unbounded domains, and discretized by adaptive Lagrange finite elements. To obtain finite-dimensional spaces, it is necessary to introduce a truncation boundary, whereby only a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-13 Théophile Chaumont-Frelet , Gregor Gantner

In this work, we develop an adaptive nonconforming finite element algorithm for the numerical approximation of phase-field parameterized topology optimization governed by the Stokes system. We employ the conforming linear finite element…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-20 Bangti Jin , Jing Li , Yifeng Xu , Shengfeng Zhu

In this paper a local Fourier analysis for multigrid methods on tetrahedral grids is presented. Different smoothers for the discretization of the Laplace operator by linear finite elements on such grids are analyzed. A four-color smoother…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2014-10-28 B. Gmeiner , T. Gradl , F. Gaspar , U. Rüde

In this article, we study superconvergence properties of immersed finite element methods for the one dimensional elliptic interface problem. Due to low global regularity of the solution, classical superconvergence phenomenon for finite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-02-16 Waixiang Cao , Xu Zhang , Zhimin Zhang

In this article a topology optimization method is developed, which is aware of material uncertainties. The uncertainties are handled in a worst-case sense, i.e. the worst possible material distribution over a given uncertainty set is taken…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-12-13 Jannis Greifenstein , Michael Stingl

This paper presents a new progressive compression method for triangular meshes. This method, in fact, is based on a schema of irregular multi-resolution analysis and is centered on the optimization of the rate-distortion trade-off. The…

Graphics · Computer Science 2013-09-16 Zeineb Abderrahim , Elhem Techini , Mohamed Salim Bouhlel

In this paper, gradient-based optimization methods are combined with finite-element modeling for improving electric devices. Geometric design parameters are considered by affine decomposition of the geometry or by the design element…

This work surveys an r-adaptive moving mesh finite element method for the numerical solution of premixed laminar flame problems. Since the model of chemically reacting flow involves many different modes with diverse length scales, the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-08-26 Zhen Sun , Malte Braack , Jens Lang

In this paper, we investigate optimal control problems governed by the parabolic interface equation, in which the control acts on the interface. The solution to this problem exhibits low global regularity due to the jump of the coefficient…

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Given a function f defined on a bidimensional bounded domain and a positive integer N, we study the properties of the triangulation that minimizes the distance between f and its interpolation on the associated finite element space, over all…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-06-06 Jean-Marie Mirebeau

Topology optimization methods face serious challenges when applied to structural design with fluid-structure interaction (FSI) loads, specially for high Reynolds fluid flow. This paper devises an explicit boundary method that employs…

A high order cut finite element method is formulated for solving the elastic wave equation. Both a single domain problem and an interface problem are treated. The boundary or interface are allowed to cut through the background mesh. To…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-04-03 Simon Sticko , Gustav Ludvigsson , Gunilla Kreiss

We prove that for compactly perturbed elliptic problems, where the corresponding bilinear form satisfies a Garding inequality, adaptive mesh-refinement is capable of overcoming the preasymptotic behavior and eventually leads to convergence…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-01-30 Alex Bespalov , Alexander Haberl , Dirk Praetorius