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Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-28 Leonardo Boledi , Benjamin Terschanski , Stefanie Elgeti , Julia Kowalski

We develop a discontinuous cut finite element method (CutFEM) for the Laplace-Beltrami operator on a hypersurface embedded in $\mathbb{R}^d$. The method is constructed by using a discontinuous piecewise linear finite element space defined…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-07-22 Erik Burman , Peter Hansbo , Mats G. Larson , Andre Massing

The focus of this contribution is the numerical treatment of interface coupled problems concerning the interaction of incompressible fluid flow and permeable, elastic structures. The main emphasis is on extending the range of applicability…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2019-05-01 Christoph Ager , Benedikt Schott , Magnus Winter , Wolfgang A. Wall

This work develops and analyzes a variational-monolithic unfitted finite element formulation of a linear fluid-structure interaction problem in Eulerian coordinates with a fixed interface. The overall discretization is based on a backward…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-27 Stefan Frei , Tobias Knoke , Marc C. Steinbach , Anne-Kathrin Wenske , Thomas Wick

We propose an unfitted finite element method for flow in fractured porous media. The coupling across the fracture uses a Nitsche type mortaring, allowing for an accurate representation of the jump in the normal component of the gradient of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-05-03 Erik Burman , Peter Hansbo , Mats G. Larson , David Samvin

An important step in shape optimization with partial differential equation constraints is to adapt the geometry during each optimization iteration. Common strategies are to employ mesh-deformation or re-meshing, where one or the other…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-06-27 Jorgen S. Dokken , Simon W. Funke , August Johansson , Stephan Schmidt

We present a finite-element approximation for the one-sided Stefan problem and the one-sided Mullins--Sekerka problem, respectively. The problems feature a fully anisotropic Gibbs--Thomson law, as well as kinetic undercooling. Our…

Computational Physics · Physics 2013-03-25 John W. Barrett , Harald Garcke , Robert Nürnberg

We present a cut finite element method for the heat equation on two overlapping meshes: a stationary background mesh and an overlapping mesh that moves around inside/"on top" of it. Here the overlapping mesh is prescribed a simple…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-03-02 Mats G. Larson , Anders Logg , Carl Lundholm

We consider convection-diffusion problems in time-dependent domains and present a space-time finite element method based on quadrature in time which is simple to implement and avoids remeshing procedures as the domain is moving. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-07-25 Sara Zahedi

In this paper we consider a class of unfitted finite element methods for scalar elliptic problems. These so-called CutFEM methods use standard finite element spaces on a fixed unfitted triangulation combined with the Nitsche technique and a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-12-26 Sven Gross , Arnold Reusken

We develop a family of cut finite element methods of different orders based on the discontinuous Galerkin framework, for hyperbolic conservation laws with stationary interfaces in both one and two space dimensions, and for moving interfaces…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-01-19 Pei Fu , Thomas Frachon , Gunilla Kreiss , Sara Zahedi

We present a method of CutFEM type for the Poisson problem with either Dirichlet or Neumann boundary conditions. The computational mesh is obtained from a background (typically uniform Cartesian) mesh by retaining only the elements…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-09-04 Alexei Lozinski

Unfitted finite element methods, like CutFEM, have traditionally been implemented in a matrix-based fashion, where a sparse matrix is assembled and later applied to vectors while solving the resulting linear system. With the goal of…

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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

Fitted finite element methods are constructed for a singularly perturbed convection-diffusion problem in two space dimensions. Exponential splines as basis functions are combined with Shishkin meshes to obtain a stable parameter-uniform…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-03 Alan F. Hegarty , Eugene O'Riordan

We propose an energy-stable parametric finite element method (ES-PFEM) for simulating solid-state dewetting of thin films in two dimensions via a sharp-interface model, which is governed by surface diffusion and contact line (point)…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-08 Quan Zhao , Wei Jiang , Weizhu Bao

Cut finite element method (CutFEM) based approaches towards challenging fluid-structure interaction (FSI) are proposed. The different considered methods combine the advantages of competing novel Eulerian (fixed-grid) and established…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2018-07-31 Benedikt Schott , Christoph Ager , Wolfgang A. Wall

We present a finite element method for the Stokes equations involving two immiscible incompressible fluids with different viscosities and with surface tension. The interface separating the two fluids does not need to align with the mesh. We…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-03-20 Peter Hansbo , Mats G. Larson , Sara Zahedi

This work presents a finite element method for simulating dynamic processes that involve the coupled evolution of dislocation motion and crack propagation. The method numerically solves the Concurrent Atomistic-Continuum (CAC) formulation…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-01 Boyang Gu , Adrian Diaz , Yang Li , Youping Chen

In this work a novel method for the analysis with trimmed CAD surfaces is presented. The method involves an additional mapping step and the attraction stems from its sim- plicity and ease of implementation into existing Finite Element (FEM)…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2015-01-28 Gernot Beer , Benjamin Marussig , Jürgen Zechner