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In simulations, particles are traditionally treated as rigid platforms with variable sizes, shapes and interaction parameters. While this representation is applicable for rigid core platforms, particles consisting of soft platforms (e.g.…
Motivated by problems where the response is needed at select localized regions in a large computational domain, we devise a novel finite element discretization that results in exponential convergence at pre-selected points. The two key…
Problems with sign-changing coefficients occur, for instance, in the study of transmission problems with metamaterials. In this work, we present and analyze a generalized finite element method in the spirit of the Localized Orthogonal…
Twisted multilayer systems, encompassing materials like twisted bilayer graphene (TBG), twisted trilayer graphene, and twisted bilayer transition metal dichalcogenides, have garnered significant attention in condensed matter physics.…
Molecular dynamics simulations are performed to investigate heterogeneous dynamics in amorphous glassy materials under oscillatory shear strain. We consider three-dimensional binary Lennard-Jones mixture well below the glass transition…
We extend the laminate based framework of direct Deep Material Networks (DMNs) to treat suspensions of rigid fibers in a non-Newtonian solvent. To do so, we derive two-phase homogenization blocks that are capable of treating incompressible…
In this paper we discretize the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations in the framework of finite element exterior calculus. We make use of the Lamb identity to rewrite the equations into a vorticity-velocity-pressure form which fits into…
Design and analysis of inelastic materials requires prediction of physical responses that evolve under loading. Numerical simulation of such behavior using finite element (FE) approaches can call for significant time and computational…
We propose a deep neural network (DNN) as a fast surrogate model for local stress (and in principle strain) calculation in inhomogeneous non-linear material systems. We show that the DNN predicts the local stresses with about 3.8% mean…
The modeling of damage processes in materials constitutes an ill-posed mathematical problem which manifests in mesh-dependent finite element results. The loss of ellipticity of the discrete system of equations is counteracted by…
This work introduces a hybrid approach that combines the Proper Generalised Decomposition (PGD) with deep learning techniques to provide real-time solutions for parametrised mechanics problems. By relying on a tensor decomposition, the…
We define the notion of effective stiffness and show that it can used to build sparsifiers, algorithms that sparsify linear systems arising from finite-element discretizations of PDEs. In particular, we show that sampling $O(n\log n)$…
Deep learning has been extensively employed as a powerful function approximator for modeling physics-based problems described by partial differential equations (PDEs). Despite their popularity, standard deep learning models often demand…
This study addresses the modelling of elastic bodies, particularly when the relaxed configuration is unknown or non-existent. We adopt the theory of initially stressed materials, incorporating the deformation gradient and stress state of…
We design a finite element method (FEM) for a membrane model of liquid crystal polymer networks (LCNs). This model consists of a minimization problem of a non-convex stretching energy. We discuss properties of this energy functional such as…
Large-scale Dynamic Networks (LDNs) are becoming increasingly important in the Internet age, yet the dynamic nature of these networks captures the evolution of the network structure and how edge weights change over time, posing unique…
We present in this paper a rigorous theoretical framework to show stability, convergence and accuracy of improved edge-based and face-based smoothed finite element methods (bESFEM and bFS-FEM) for nearly-incompressible elasticity problems.…
Homogeneous polynomial dynamical systems (HPDSs), which can be equivalently represented by tensors, are essential for modeling higher-order networked systems, including ecological networks, chemical reactions, and multi-agent robotic…
We develop a new finite element method for solving planar elasticity problems involving of heterogeneous materials with a mesh not necessarily aligning with the interface of the materials. This method is based on the `broken'…
Tensor network (TN) representation is a powerful technique for computer vision and machine learning. TN structure search (TN-SS) aims to search for a customized structure to achieve a compact representation, which is a challenging NP-hard…