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Hyperbolic partial differential equations (PDEs) cover a wide range of interesting phenomena, from human and hearth-sciences up to astrophysics: this unavoidably requires the treatment of many space and time scales in order to describe at…
We develop a Nitsche finite element method for a model of Euler--Bernoulli beams with axial stiffness embedded in a two--dimensional elastic bulk domain. The beams have their own displacement fields, and the elastic subdomains created by…
We consider a system of second order non-linear elliptic partial differential equations that models the equilibrium configurations of a two dimensional planar bistable nematic liquid crystal device. Discontinuous Galerkin finite element…
We develop a finite element method for the vector Laplacian based on the covariant derivative of tangential vector fields on surfaces embedded in $\mathbb{R}^3$. Closely related operators arise in models of flow on surfaces as well as…
A local discontinuous Galerkin (LDG) method for approximating large deformations of prestrained plates is introduced and tested on several insightful numerical examples in our previous computational work. This paper presents a numerical…
Partition of unity methods, such as the extended finite element method (XFEM) allow discontinuities to be simulated independently of the mesh [1]. This eliminates the need for the mesh to be aligned with the discontinuity or cumbersome…
In this paper, we propose a novel $hr$-adaptive finite element method, enhanced by neural networks, for parabolic equations. The main challenge of the conventional $h$-adaptive finite element method is interpolating the finite element…
Manually tailored wrinkled graphene sheets hold great promise in fabricating smart solid-state devices. In this paper, we employ an energy method to transform the original third-order partial differential equation (pde), i.e. Eq. (1) into…
The main purpose of the present paper is to solve the thermodynamic inconsistencies that result when deriving equivalent micropolar models of periodic beam-lattice materials through standard continualization schemes. In fact, this technique…
In this paper, we propose a horizontal type method of lines numerical scheme for the unsteady Euler-Bernoulli beam equation. The problem is initially reformulated as a first order system of initial value problems and a suitable one-step…
In this paper, we develop a non-singular continuum theory of point defects based on a second strain gradient elasticity theory, the so-called gradient elasticity of bi-Helmholtz type. Such a generalized continuum theory possesses a weak…
We propose an enriched finite element formulation to address the computational modeling of contact problems and the coupling of non-conforming discretizations in the small deformation setting. The displacement field is augmented by enriched…
We propose a novel formulation for parametric finite element methods to simulate surface diffusion of closed curves, which is also called as the curve diffusion. Several high-order temporal discretizations are proposed based on this new…
A quadrature method for second-order, curved triangular elements in the Boundary Element Method (BEM) is presented, based on a polar coordinate transformation, combined with elementary geometric operations. The numerical performance of the…
In this contribution, a finite element scheme to impose mixed boundary conditions without introducing Lagrange multipliers is presented for hyperbolic systems described as port-Hamiltonian systems. The strategy relies on finite element…
In this work, a higher-order irrotational strain gradient plasticity theory is studied in the small strain regime. A detailed numerical study is based on the problem of simple shear of a non-homogeneous block comprising an elastic-plastic…
Computing the stiffness matrix for the finite element discretization of the nonlocal Laplacian on unstructured meshes is difficult, because the operator is nonlocal and can even be singular. In this paper, we focus on the $C^0$-piecewise…
A novel approach was derived to compute the elastic displacement field from a measured elastic deformation field (i.e., deformation gradient or strain). The method is based on integrating the deformation field using Finite Element…
We propose an arbitrary-order discontinuous Galerkin method for second-order elliptic problem on general polygonal mesh with only one degree of freedom per element. This is achieved by locally solving a discrete least-squares over a…
We introduce a novel spectral element method based on the ultraspherical spectral method and the hierarchical Poincar\'{e}-Steklov scheme for solving second-order linear partial differential equations on polygonal domains with unstructured…