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In this paper, a direct finite element method is proposed for solving interface problems on unfitted meshes. This new method treats the two interface conditions as an $H^{\frac12}(\Gamma)\times H^{-\frac12}(\Gamma)$ pair for the mutual…

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We develop primal and mixed variational formulations of transport phenomena on cell complexes with simple polytope connectivity. This framework addresses materials with internal structures comprising components of different topological…

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We formulate an optimal transport problem for matrix-valued density functions. This is pertinent in the spectral analysis of multivariable time-series. The "mass" represents energy at various frequencies whereas, in addition to a usual…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2013-04-16 Lipeng Ning , Tryphon T. Georgiou , Allen Tannenbaum

We present a spectral finite-element formulation of the optimized effective potential (OEP) method for atomic structure calculations in the random phase approximation (RPA). In particular, we develop a finite-element framework that employs…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-01-28 Shubhang Krishnakant Trivedi , Phanish Suryanarayana

In this work, we bridge standard adaptive mesh refinement and coarsening on scalable octree background meshes and robust unfitted finite element formulations for the automatic and efficient solution of large-scale nonlinear solid mechanics…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-01 Santiago Badia , Manuel Caicedo , Alberto F. Martín , Javier Principe

A novel algorithm is proposed to solve the sample-based optimal transport problem. An adversarial formulation of the push-forward condition uses a test function built as a convolution between an adaptive kernel and an evolving probability…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-06-11 Daeyoung Kim , Esteban G. Tabak

Monotone gradient functions play a central role in solving the Monge formulation of the optimal transport (OT) problem, which arises in modern applications ranging from fluid dynamics to robot swarm control. When the transport cost is the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Shreyas Chaudhari , Srinivasa Pranav , José M. F. Moura

A common approach for generating an anisotropic mesh is the M-uniform mesh approach where an adaptive mesh is generated as a uniform one in the metric specified by a given tensor M. A key component is the determination of an appropriate…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-10-11 Lennard Kamenski

We present 2-D, 3-D, and spherical mesh generators for the Finite Element Method (FEM) using triangular and tetrahedral elements. The mesh nodes are treated as if they were linked by virtual springs that obey Hooke's law. Given the desired…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-11-20 J. M. Taramón , J. P. Morgan , C. Shi , J. Hasenclever

We propose and analyze an adaptive finite element method for a phase-field model of dynamic brittle fracture. The model couples a second-order hyperbolic equation for elastodynamics with the Ambrosio-Tortorelli regularization of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-08 Ram Manohar , S. M. Mallikarjuaniah

This paper studies mixed finite element approximations of the viscosity solution to the Dirichlet problem for the fully nonlinear Monge-Amp\`ere equation $\det(D^2u^0)=f$ based on the vanishing moment method which was proposed recently by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2007-12-11 Xiaobing Feng , Michael Neilan

We consider Kantorovich optimal transportation problem in the case where the cost function and marginal distributions continuously depend on a parameter with values in a metric space. We prove the existence of approximate optimal Monge…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2023-02-27 Svetlana Popova

The classes of Monge-Amp\`ere systems, decomposable and bi-decomposable Monge-Amp\`ere systems, including equations for improper affine spheres and hypersurfaces of constant Gauss-Kronecker curvature are introduced. They are studied by the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-10-13 Goo Ishikawa , Yoshinori Machida

In this paper we discuss the optimal convergence of a standard adaptive scheme based on mixed finite element approximation to the solution of the eigenvalue problem associated with the Stokes equations. The proofs of the quasi-orthogonality…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Daniele Boffi , Arbaz Khan

In this article we prove that it is possible to construct, using newest-vertex bisection, meshes that equidistribute the error in $H^1$-norm, whenever the function to approximate can be decomposed as a sum of a regular part plus a singular…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2008-03-28 Fernando D. Gaspoz , Pedro Morin

We present a one-dimensional high-order moving-mesh finite element method for moving boundary problems where the boundary velocity depends implicitly on the solution in the interior of the domain. The method employs a conservative arbitrary…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-05 Matthew E Hubbard , Thomas J Radley

Motivated by the degree of smoothness of constrained embeddings of surfaces in $\mathbb{R}^3$, and by the recent applications to the elasticity of shallow shells, we rigorously derive the $\Gamma$-limit of 3-dimensional nonlinear elastic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-12-03 Marta Lewicka , L Mahadevan , Mohammad Reza Pakzad

We consider adaptive finite element methods for solving a multiscale system consisting of a macroscale model comprising a system of reaction-diffusion partial differential equations coupled to a microscale model comprising a system of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-22 A. Johansson , J. H. Chaudry , V. Carey , D. Estep , V. Ginting , M. Larson , S. Tavener

Cellular morphodynamics requires solving systems of coupled partial differential equations on moving bulk and surface domains, where advection-dominant transport, structure preservation, and severe mesh distortions make robust simulation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-12 Alessandro Contri , André Massing , Padmini Rangamani

In this paper, we apply the constraint energy minimizing generalized multiscale finite element method (CEM-GMsFEM) to first solving a nonlinear poroelasticity problem. The arising system consists of a nonlinear pressure equation and a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-05-31 Shubin Fu , Eric Chung , Tina Mai