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We derive error estimates for the piecewise linear finite element approximation of the Laplace--Beltrami operator on a bounded, orientable, $C^3$, surface without boundary on general shape regular meshes. As an application, we consider a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-05-15 Johnny Guzman , Alexandre Madureira , Marcus Sarkis , Shawn Walker

This paper introduces an accurate edge-based smoothed finite element method (ES-FEM) for electromagnetic analysis for both two dimensional cylindrical and three dimensional cartesian systems, which shows much better performance in terms of…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2019-10-30 Yangfan Zhang , Pengfei Wang , Wenping Li , Shunchuan Yang

The paper presents a new method for shape and topology optimization based on an efficient and scalable boundary integral formulation for elasticity. To optimize topology, our approach uses iterative extraction of isosurfaces of a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-12-14 Igor Ostanin , Ivan Tsybulin , Mikhail Litsarev , Ivan Oseledets , Denis Zorin

Interfacial energy plays an important role in equilibrium morphologies of nanosized microstructures of solid materials due to the high interface-to-volume ratio, and can no longer be neglected as it does in conventional mechanics analysis.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-10-22 Xujun Zhao , Stéphane P. A. Bordas , Jianmin Qu

In the analysis of composite materials with heterogeneous microstructures, full resolution of the heterogeneities using classical numerical approaches can be computationally prohibitive. This paper presents a micromechanics-enhanced finite…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-11-08 J. Novák , Ł. Kaczmarczyk , P. Grassl , J. Zeman , C. J. Pearce

The purpose of this research is to describe an efficient iterative method suitable for obtaining high accuracy solutions to high frequency time-harmonic scattering problems. The method allows for both refinement of local polynomial degree…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-12-26 Ryan Galagusz , Steve McFee

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 propose a new finite element method for Helmholtz equation in the situation where an acoustically permeable interface is embedded in the computational domain. A variant of Nitsche's method, different from the standard one, weakly…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-03-01 Esubalewe Lakie Yedeg , Eddie Wadbro , Peter Hansbo , Mats G. Larson , Martin Berggren

In this article we propose a scalable shape optimization algorithm which is tailored for large scale problems and geometries represented by hierarchically refined meshes. Weak scalability and grid independent convergence is achieved via a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-05-09 Jose Pinzon , Martin Siebenborn

Spaces where each element describes a shape, so-called shape spaces, are of particular interest in shape optimization and its applications. Theory and algorithms in shape optimization are often based on techniques from differential…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-01 Lidiya Pryymak , Tim Suchan , Kathrin Welker

Computationally solving the equations of elasticity is a key component in many materials science and mechanics simulations. Phenomena such as deformation-induced microstructure evolution, microfracture, and microvoid nucleation are examples…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2021-12-08 Brandon Runnels , Vinamra Agrawal , Weiqun Zhang , Ann Almgren

This study presents a generalized multiscale multimesh finite element method ($\text{M}^2$-FEM) that addresses several long-standing challenges in the numerical simulation of integral structural theories, often used to model multiscale and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-27 Wei Ding , Sansit Patnaik , Fabio Semperlotti

A numerical framework is developed to solve various types of PDEs on complicated domains, including steady and time-dependent, non-linear and non-local PDEs, with different boundary conditions that can also include non-linear and non-local…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-07-13 Jonna C. Roden , Rory D. Mills-Williams , John W. Pearson , Benjamin D. Goddard

In this paper, we propose a multiphysics mixed finite element method with Nitsche's technique for Stokes-poroelasticity problem. Firstly, we present a multiphysics reformulation of poroelasticity part of the original problem by introducing…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-12-24 Zhihao Ge , Jin'ge Pang , Jiwei Cao

Construction of optimal deformations is one of the long standing problems of computational mathematics. We consider the problem of computing quasi-isometric deformations with minimal possible quasi-isometry constant (global estimate for…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-01-31 Vladimir Garanzha , Igor Kaporin , Liudmila Kudryavtseva , François Protais , David Desobry , Dmitry Sokolov

Structural optimization (topology, shapes, sizing) is an important tool for facilitating the emergence of new concepts in structural design. Normally, topology optimization is carried out at the early stage of design and then shape and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-16 Ghislain Raze , Joseph Morlier

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

A functional for joint variational object segmentation and shape matching is developed. The formulation is based on optimal transport w.r.t. geometric distance and local feature similarity. Geometric invariance and modelling of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-12-30 Bernhard Schmitzer , Christoph Schnörr

Models incorporating uncertain inputs, such as random forces or material parameters, have been of increasing interest in PDE-constrained optimization. In this paper, we focus on the efficient numerical minimization of a convex and smooth…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-18 Caroline Geiersbach , Winnifried Wollner

This paper presents a mini immersed finite element (IFE) method for solving two- and three-dimensional two-phase Stokes problems on Cartesian meshes. The IFE space is constructed from the conventional mini element, with shape functions…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-02 Haifeng Ji , Dong Liang , Qian Zhang