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A novel Material Point Method (MPM) is introduced for addressing frictional contact problems. In contrast to the standard multi-velocity field approach, this method employs a penalty method to evaluate contact forces at the discretised…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-03-21 Emmanouil G. Kakouris , Manolis N. Chatzis , Savvas P. Triantafyllou

Meshfree methods based on radial basis function (RBF) approximation are of interest for numerical solution of partial differential equations (PDEs) because they are flexible with respect to the geometry of the computational domain, they can…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-05-17 Ali Safdari-Vaighani , Elisabeth Larsson , Alfa Heryudono

In this article we develop an $hp$-adaptive refinement procedure for Trefftz discontinuous Galerkin methods applied to the homogeneous Helmholtz problem. Our approach combines not only mesh subdivision (h-refinement) and local basis…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-11-01 Scott Congreve , Paul Houston , Ilaria Perugia

This paper introduces a deep learning method for solving an elliptic hemivariational inequality (HVI). In this method, an expectation minimization problem is first formulated based on the variational principle of underlying HVI, which is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-13 Jianguo Huang , Chunmei Wang , Haoqin Wang

We develop an unfitted compatible finite element discretisation for the Darcy problem based on $H(\mathrm{div})$-conforming flux spaces and discontinuous pressure spaces. The method is designed to preserve pointwise discrete mass…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-30 Santiago Badia , Anne Boschman , Alberto F. Martín , Erik Nilsson , Ricardo Ruiz-Baier , Sara Zahedi

Recently proposed formulation of the Boundary Element Method for adhesive contacts has been generalized for contacts of functionally graded materials with and without adhesion. First, proceeding from the fundamental solution for single…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-12-28 Qiang Li , Valentin L. Popov

Chaotic free surface flows are challenging problems to simulate numerically, mainly due to the significant changes in geometry and frequent topological changes. Methods that track the evolution of the fluid in a Lagrangian formulation are a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-12-24 Thomas Leyssens , Jonathan Lambrechts , Jean-François Remacle

We present a consistent approach that allows to solve challenging general nonlinear fluid-structure-contact interaction (FSCI) problems. The underlying continuous formulation includes both "no-slip" fluid-structure interaction as well as…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2019-05-24 Christoph Ager , Alexander Seitz , Wolfgang A. Wall

Partial differential equations (PDEs) with near singular solutions pose significant challenges for traditional numerical methods, particularly in complex geometries where mesh generation and adaptive refinement become computationally…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-24 Yangtao Deng , Qiaolin He , Xiaoping Wang

We present a high-order radial basis function finite difference (RBF-FD) framework for the solution of advection-diffusion equations on time-varying domains. Our framework is based on a generalization of the recently developed Overlapped…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-15 Varun Shankar , Grady B. Wright , Aaron L. Fogelson

We present a new discretization method for homogeneous convection-diffusion-reaction boundary value problems in 3D that is a non-standard finite element method with PDE-harmonic shape functions on polyhedral elements. The element stiffness…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-08-29 Clemens Hofreither , Ulrich Langer , Steffen Weißer

We propose an adaptive regularization scheme in a variational framework where a convex composite energy functional is optimized. We consider a number of imaging problems including denoising, segmentation and motion estimation, which are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-01 Byung-Woo Hong , Ja-Keoung Koo , Hendrik Dirks , Martin Burger

Recently, collocation based radial basis function (RBF) partition of unity methods (PUM) for solving partial differential equations have been formulated and investigated numerically and theoretically. When combined with stable evaluation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-02-24 Elisabeth Larsson , Victor Shcherbakov , Alfa Heryudono

We design and analyze an approximation method for advection-diffusion-reaction equations where the (generalized) degrees of freedom are polynomials of order $k\ge0$ at mesh faces. The method hinges on local discrete reconstruction operators…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-05-29 Daniele A. Di Pietro , Jérôme Droniou , Alexandre Ern

Piecewise affine functions are widely used to approximate nonlinear and discontinuous functions. However, most, if not all existing models only deal with fitting continuous functions. In this paper, we investigate the problem of fitting a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-01-29 Ruobing Shen , Bo Tang , Leo Liberti , Claudia D'Ambrosio , Stéphane Canu

In this paper we propose a method to generate suitably refined finite element meshes using neural networks. As a model problem we consider a linear elasticity problem on a planar domain (possibly with holes) having a polygonal boundary. We…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-16 Chiu Ling Chan , Felix Scholz , Thomas Takacs

We propose a parametric finite element method (PFEM) for efficiently solving the morphological evolution of solid-state dewetting of thin films on a flat rigid substrate in three dimensions (3D). The interface evolution of the dewetting…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-03-03 Quan Zhao , Wei Jiang , Weizhu Bao

This paper presents an algorithmic framework for solving unconstrained stochastic optimization problems using only stochastic function evaluations. We employ central finite-difference based gradient estimation methods to approximate the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-14 Raghu Bollapragada , Cem Karamanli

This paper is concerned with the analysis of the kernel-based algorithm for gain function approximation in the feedback particle filter. The exact gain function is the solution of a Poisson equation involving a probability-weighted…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-12-19 Amirhossein Taghvaei , Prashant G. Mehta , Sean P. Meyn

We propose and test the first Reduced Radial Basis Function Method (R$^2$BFM) for solving parametric partial differential equations on irregular domains. The two major ingredients are a stable Radial Basis Function (RBF) solver that has an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-10-09 Yanlai Chen , Sigal Gottlieb , Alfa Heryudono , Akil Narayan