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We present an efficient computational approach to perform real-space electronic structure calculations using an adaptive higher-order finite-element discretization of Kohn-Sham density-functional theory (DFT). To this end, we develop an…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Phani Motamarri , Michael R Nowak , Kenneth Leiter , Jaroslaw Knap , Vikram Gavini

In the present work, we investigate the computational efficiency afforded by higher-order finite-element discretization of the saddle-point formulation of orbital-free density functional theory. We first investigate the robustness of viable…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Phani Motamarri , Mrinal Iyer , Jaroslaw Knap , Vikram Gavini

This is a study of certain finite element methods designed for convection-dominated, time-dependent partial differential equations. Specifically, we analyze high order space-time tensor product finite element discretizations, used in a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-10-30 Randolph E. Bank , Maximilian S. Metti

We present a subspace projection technique to conduct large-scale Kohn-Sham density functional theory calculations using spectral finite-element discretization. The proposed method treats both metallic and insulating materials in a single…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-10-26 Phani Motamarri , Vikram Gavini

We present a computationally efficient approach to perform large-scale all-electron density functional theory calculations by enriching the classical finite element basis with compactly supported atom-centered numerical basis functions that…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-01-11 Bikash Kanungo , Vikram Gavini

In this paper, we introduce a highly accurate and efficient numerical solver for the radial Kohn--Sham equation. The equation is discretized using a high-order finite element method, with its performance further improved by incorporating a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-08 Zheming Luo , Yang Kuang

In this paper, a novel adaptive finite element method is proposed to solve the Kohn-Sham equation based on the moving mesh (nonnested mesh) adaptive technique and the augmented subspace method. Different from the classical self-consistent…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-05-01 Guanghui Hu , Hehu Xie , Fei Xu , Gang Zhao

Given a set of Kohn-Sham orbitals from an insulating system, we present a simple, robust, efficient and highly parallelizable method to construct a set of, optionally orthogonal, localized basis functions for the associated subspace. Our…

Computational Physics · Physics 2014-11-05 Anil Damle , Lin Lin , Lexing Ying

We present for static density functional theory and time-dependent density functional theory calculations an all-electron method which employs high-order hierarchical finite element bases. Our mesh generation scheme, in which structured…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-08-06 Lauri Lehtovaara , Ville Havu , Martti Puska

We propose a class of temporally high-order parametric finite element methods for simulating solid-state dewetting of thin films in two dimensions using a sharp-interface model. The process is governed by surface diffusion and contact point…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-21 Xiaowen Gan , Yuqian Teng , Sisheng Wang

Kohn-Sham density functional theory calculations using conventional diagonalization based methods become increasingly expensive as temperature increases due to the need to compute increasing numbers of partially occupied states. We present…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-03-23 Qimen Xu , Xin Jing , Boqin Zhang , John E. Pask , Phanish Suryanarayana

We present a method to discretize the Kohn-Sham Hamiltonian matrix in the pseudopotential framework by a small set of basis functions automatically contracted from a uniform basis set such as planewaves. Each basis function is localized…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Lin Lin , Lexing Ying

We discuss time dependent quantum systems on bounded domains. Our work may be viewed as a framework for several models, including linear iterations involved in time dependent density functional theory (TDDFT), the Hartree-Fock model, or…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2013-09-17 Joseph W. Jerome , Eric Polizzi

In the present work, advanced spatial and temporal discretization techniques are tailored to hyperelastic physics-augmented neural networks, i.e., neural network based constitutive models which fulfill all relevant mechanical conditions of…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-06-19 Marlon Franke , Dominik K. Klein , Oliver Weeger , Peter Betsch

A mass-conservative high-order unfitted finite element method for convection-diffusion equations in evolving domains is proposed. The space-time method presented in [P. Hansbo, M. G. Larson, S. Zahedi, Comput. Methods Appl. Mech. Engrg. 307…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-05-01 Sebastian Myrbäck , Sara Zahedi

We focus here on a class of fourth-order parabolic equations that can be written as a system of second-order equations by introducing an auxiliary variable. We design a novel second-order fully discrete mixed finite element method to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-08-28 Sana Keita , Abdelaziz Beljadid , Yves Bourgault

Our work is about energy conserving fourth-order time discretizations of a three-field formulation of Maxwell's equations in conjunction with a spatial discretization using higher-order and compatible de Rham finite element spaces. Toward…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Archana Arya , Kaushik Kalyanaraman

Quantum mechanical calculations for material modelling using Kohn-Sham density functional theory (DFT) involve the solution of a nonlinear eigenvalue problem for $N$ smallest eigenvector-eigenvalue pairs with $N$ proportional to the number…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-09-26 Sameer Khadatkar , Phani Motamarri

Locally refined meshes impose severe stability constraints on explicit time-stepping methods for the numerical simulation of time dependent wave phenomena. Local time-stepping methods overcome that bottleneck by using smaller time-steps…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-10-19 Marcus Grote , Teodora Mitkova

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

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