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Fine scale elastic structures are widespread in nature, for instances in plants or bones, whenever stiffness and low weight are required. These patterns frequently refine towards a Dirichlet boundary to ensure an effective load transfer.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-11-13 Nora Lüthen , Martin Rumpf , Sascha Tölkes , Orestis Vantzos

In this paper we discuss a level set approach for the identification of an unknown boundary in a computational domain. The problem takes the form of a Bernoulli problem where only the Dirichlet datum is known on the boundary that is to be…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-08-25 Erik Burman , Cuiyu He , Mats G. Larson

A mass-conservative high-order unfitted finite element method for convection-diffusion equations in evolving domains is proposed. The space-time method presented in [P. Hansbo, M. G. Larson, S. Zahedi, Comput. Methods Appl. Mech. Engrg. 307…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-05-01 Sebastian Myrbäck , Sara Zahedi

The inverse conductivity problem aims at determining the unknown conductivity inside a bounded domain from boundary measurements. In practical applications, algorithms based on minimizing a regularized residual functional subject to PDE…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-02 Lefu Cai , Zhixin Liu , Minghui Song , Xianchao Wang

We develop a cut finite element method for the Darcy problem on surfaces. The cut finite element method is based on embedding the surface in a three dimensional finite element mesh and using finite element spaces defined on the three…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-10-11 Peter Hansbo , Mats G. Larson , Andre Massing

Shape optimization involves the minimization of a cost function defined over a set of shapes, often governed by a partial differential equation (PDE). In the absence of closed-form solutions, one relies on numerical methods to approximate…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-21 Eloi Martinet , Leon Bungert

In this contribution we present a new computational method for coupled bulk-surface problems on time-dependent domains. The method is based on a space-time formulation using discontinuous piecewise linear elements in time and continuous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-05-25 Peter Hansbo , Mats G. Larson , Sara Zahedi

We develop a cut finite element method (CutFEM) for the convection problem in a so called fractured domain which is a union of manifolds of different dimensions such that a $d$ dimensional component always resides on the boundary of a $d+1$…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-02-05 Erik Burman , Peter Hansbo , Mats G. Larson , Karl Larsson

We develop a cut finite element method (CutFEM) for convection-diffusion problems posed on mixed-dimensional domains, i.e., unions of manifolds of different dimensions arranged in a hierarchical structure where lower-dimensional components…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-09 Erik Burman , Peter Hansbo , Mats G. Larson , Karl Larsson , Shantiram Mahata

Meshing of geometric domains having curved boundaries by affine simplices produces a polytopial approximation of those domains. The resulting error in the representation of the domain limits the accuracy of finite element methods based on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-02-09 James Cheung , Mauro Perego , Pavel Bochev , Max Gunzburger

We present a new high order finite element method for the discretization of partial differential equations on stationary smooth surfaces which are implicitly described as the zero level of a level set function. The discretization is based…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-04-17 Jörg Grande , Christoph Lehrenfeld , Arnold Reusken

To facilitate widespread adoption of automated engineering design techniques, existing methods must become more efficient and generalizable. In the field of topology optimization, this requires the coupling of modern optimization methods…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-02-23 Connor N. Mallon , Aaron W. Thornton , Matthew R. Hill , Santiago Badia

We present an efficient and robust numerical algorithm for solving the two-dimensional linear elasticity problem that combines the Quantized Tensor Train format and a domain partitioning strategy. This approach makes it possible to solve…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-15 Elena Benvenuti , Gianmarco Manzini , Marco Nale , Simone Pizzolato

This paper presents a method for the optimization of multi-component structures comprised of two and three materials considering large motion sliding contact and separation along interfaces. The structural geometry is defined by an explicit…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-01-24 Matthew Lawry , Kurt Maute

We introduce a framework for the design of finite element methods for two-dimensional moving boundary problems with prescribed boundary evolution that have arbitrarily high order of accuracy, both in space and in time. At the core of our…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-19 Evan S. Gawlik , Adrian J. Lew

We develop a parametric cut finite element method for elliptic boundary value problems with corner singularities where we have weighted control of higher order derivatives of the solution to a neighborhood of a point at the boundary. Our…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-06-04 Tobias Jonsson , Mats G. Larson , Karl Larsson

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

This article introduces a novel method for the implementation of shape optimisation with Lipschitz domains. We propose to use the shape derivative to determine deformation fields which represent steepest descent directions of the shape…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-12-15 Klaus Deckelnick , Philip J. Herbert , Michael Hinze

This thesis deals with shape optimization for contact mechanics. More specifically, the linear elasticity model is considered under the small deformations hypothesis, and the elastic body is assumed to be in contact (sliding or with Tresca…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-30 Bastien Chaudet-Dumas

This work deals with shape optimization for contact mechanics. More specifically, the linear elasticity model is considered under the small deformations hypothesis, and the elastic body is assumed to be in contact (sliding or with Tresca…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-30 Bastien Chaudet-Dumas