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Nitsche's method is a numerical approach that weakly enforces boundary conditions for partial differential equations. In recent years, Nitsche's method has experienced a revival owing to its natural application in modern computational…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-13 Hiroki Ishizaka

We propose a novel cut finite element method for the numerical solution of the Biot system of poroelasticity. The Biot system couples elastic deformation of a porous solid with viscous fluid flow and commonly arises on domains with complex…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Nanna Berre , Kent-Andre Mardal , André Massing , Ivan Yotov

The finite element method (FEM) is a well-established numerical method for solving partial differential equations (PDEs). However, its mesh-based nature gives rise to substantial computational costs, especially for complex multiscale…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Weihang Ouyang , Yeonjong Shin , Si-Wei Liu , Lu Lu

In the discretization of differential problems on complex geometrical domains, discretization methods based on polygonal and polyhedral elements are powerful tools. Adaptive mesh refinement for such kind of problems is very useful as well…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-12-12 Stefano Berrone , Andrea Borio , Alessandro D'Auria

The paper develops a finite element method for partial differential equations posed on hypersurfaces in $\mathbb{R}^N$, $N=2,3$. The method uses traces of bulk finite element functions on a surface embedded in a volumetric domain. The bulk…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-19 Alexey Y. Chernyshenko , Maxim A. Olshanskii

A robust and fast solver for the fractional differential equation (FDEs) involving the Riesz fractional derivative is developed using an adaptive finite element method on non-uniform meshes. It is based on the utilization of hierarchical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-10-11 Xuan Zhao , Xiaozhe Hu , Wei Cai , George Em Karniadakis

We present a new fixed mesh algorithm for solving a class of interface inverse problems for the typical elliptic interface problems. These interface inverse problems are formulated as shape optimization prob- lems whose objective…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-18 Ruchi Guo , Tao Lin , Yanping Lin

This work proposes an $r$-adaptive finite element method (FEM) using neural networks (NNs). The method employs the Ritz energy functional as the loss function, currently limiting its applicability to symmetric and coercive problems, such as…

The finite-element method is a preferred numerical method when electromagnetic fields at high accuracy are to be computed in nano-optics design. Here, we demonstrate a finite-element method using hp-adaptivity on tetrahedral meshes for…

In this paper, we introduce the Phantom Domain Finite Element Method (PDFEM), a novel computational approach tailored for the efficient analysis of heterogeneous and composite materials. Inspired by fictitious domain methods, this method…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-06 Tianlong He , Philippe Karamian-Surville , Daniel Choï

A moving mesh finite element method is studied for the numerical solution of a phase-field model for brittle fracture. The moving mesh partial differential equation approach is employed to dynamically track crack propagation. Meanwhile, the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-01-17 Fei Zhang , Weizhang Huang , Xianping Li , Shicheng Zhang

This paper analyzes an interface-unfitted numerical method for distributed optimal control problems governed by elliptic interface equations. We follow the variational discretization concept to discretize the optimal control problems, and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-05 Tao Wang , Chaochao Yang , Xiaoping Xie

This paper develops and analyses numerical approximation for linear-quadratic optimal control problem governed by elliptic interface equations. We adopt variational discretization concept to discretize optimal control problem, and apply an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-06-04 Chao Chao Yang , Tao Wang , Xiaoping Xie

We design a cut finite element method for the incompressible Stokes equations on curved domains. The cut finite element method allows for the domain boundary to cut through the elements of the computational mesh in a very general fashion.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-01-24 Erik Burman , Peter Hansbo , Mats G. Larson

We develop a density based topology optimization method for linear elasticity based on the cut finite element method. More precisely, the design domain is discretized using cut finite elements which allow complicated geometry to be…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-03-19 Erik Burman , Daniel Elfverson , Peter Hansbo , Mats G. Larson , Karl Larsson

An optimal and robust low-order nonconforming finite element method is developed for the strain gradient elasticity (SGE) model in arbitrary dimension. An $H^2$-nonconforming quadratic vector-valued finite element in arbitrary dimension is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-30 Jianguo Huang , Xuehai Huang , Zheqian Tang

The Finite Element Method (FEM) is a powerful computational tool for solving partial differential equations (PDEs). Although commercial and open-source FEM software packages are widely available, an independent implementation of FEM…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-06 Victor Dominguez , Alejandro Duque

Shape optimization models with one or more shapes are considered in this chapter. Of particular interest for applications are problems in which where a so-called shape functional is constrained by a partial differential equation (PDE)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-19 Caroline Geiersbach , Estefania Loayza-Romero , Kathrin Welker

In this paper, we propose a new approach -- the Tempered Finite Element Method (TFEM) -- that extends the Finite Element Method (FEM) to classes of meshes that include zero-measure or nearly degenerate elements for which standard FEM…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-27 Antoine Quiriny , Václav Kučera , Jonathan Lambrechts , Nicolas Moës , Jean-François Remacle

A new field of numerical astrophysics is introduced which addresses the solution of large, multidimensional structural or slowly-evolving problems (rotating stars, interacting binaries, thick advective accretion disks, four dimensional…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 David L. Meier