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The phase-field method has emerged as a powerful tool for simulating fracture mechanics, yet it presents significant numerical challenges, particularly regarding the enforcement of physical constraints such as irreversibility and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-30 Miguel Castillón , Biswajit Khara , Jørgen S. Dokken , Thomas M. Surowiec , Brendan Keith , Yuri Bazilevs

The phase-field model (PFM) represents the crack geometry in a diffusive way without introducing sharp discontinuities. This feature enables PFM to effectively model crack propagation compared with numerical methods based on discrete crack…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2019-02-18 Shuwei Zhou , Timon Rabczuk , Xiaoying Zhuang

This work presents a numerical analysis of computing transition states of semilinear elliptic partial differential equations (PDEs) via the index-1 saddle dynamics, or equivalently, the gentlest ascent dynamics. To establish clear…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Lei Zhang , Xiangcheng Zheng , Shangqin Zhu

We extend thresholding methods for numerical realization of mean curvature flow on obstacles to the anisotropic setting where interfacial energy depends on the orientation of the interface. This type of schemes treats the interface…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-09 Siddharth Gavhale , Karel Svadlenka

This article presents a multi-physics methodology for the numerical simulation of physical systems that involve the non-linear interaction of multi-phase reactive fluids and elastoplastic solids, inducing high strain-rates and high…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-06-04 Tim Wallis , Philip T. Barton , Nikolaos Nikiforakis

In this paper, we study a numerical method for the solution of partial differential equations on evolving surfaces. The numerical method is built on the stabilized trace finite element method (TraceFEM) for the spatial discretization and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-03-23 Christoph Lehrenfeld , Maxim A. Olshanskii , Xianmin Xu

Phase plotting is a useful way of visualising functions on complex space. We reinvent the method in the context of hyperbolic geometry, and we use it to plot functions on various representative surfaces for hyperbolic space, illustrating…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-03-28 Scott B. Lindstrom , Paul Vrbik

We consider a system of two coupled parabolic PDEs introduced in [1] to model motility of eukaryotic cells. We study the asymptotic behavior of solutions in the limit of a small parameter related to the width of the interface in phase field…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-02-05 Leonid Berlyand , Mykhailo Potomkin , Volodymyr Rybalko

This paper proposes a Cartesian grid-based boundary integral method for efficiently and stably solving two representative moving interface problems, the Hele-Shaw flow and the Stefan problem. Elliptic and parabolic partial differential…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-22 Han Zhou , Shuwang Li , Wenjun Ying

Mode surfaces are the generalization of degenerate curves and neutral surfaces, which constitute 3D symmetric tensor field topology. Efficient analysis and visualization of mode surfaces can provide additional insight into not only…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-09-11 Botong Qu , Lawrence Roy , Yue Zhang , Eugene Zhang

Phase-field methods have long been used to model the flow of immiscible fluids. Their ability to naturally capture interface topological changes is widely recognized, but their accuracy in simulating flows of real fluids in practical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-06-10 Baofang Song , Carlos Plana , Jose M. Lopez , Marc Avila

This is a brief review, in relatively non-technical terms, of recent advances in the theory of random field geometry. These advances have provided a collection of explicit new formulae describing mean values of a variety of geometric…

Probability · Mathematics 2008-05-08 Robert J Adler

Level set-based immersed boundary techniques operate on nonconforming meshes while providing a crisp definition of interface and external boundaries. In such techniques, an isocontour of a level set field interpolated from nodal level set…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Jorge L. Barrera , Kurt Maute

The present endeavor numerically exploits the use of a phase-field model to simulate and investigate fracture patterns, deformation mechanisms, damage, and mechanical responses in a human vertebra after the incision of pedicle screws under…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Deison Preve , Pietro Lenarda , Daniele Bianchi , Alessio Gizzi

Water-ice systems undergoing melting develop complex spatio-temporal interface dynamics and a non-trivial temperature field. In this contribution, we present computational aspects of a recently conducted validation study that aims at…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-01-12 K. Schüller , B. Berkels , J. Kowalski

We introduce in this paper new and very effective numerical methods based on neural networks for the approximation of the mean curvature flow of either oriented or non-orientable surfaces. To learn the correct interface evolution law, our…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-20 Elie Bretin , Roland Denis , Simon Masnou , Garry Terii

This work presents a new adaptive approach for the numerical simulation of a phase-field model for fractures in nearly incompressible solids. In order to cope with locking effects, we use a recently proposed mixed form where we have a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-18 Katrin Mang , Mirjam Walloth , Thomas Wick , Winnifried Wollner

Immersed finite element (IFE) methods are a group of long-existing numerical methods for solving interface problems on unfitted meshes. A core argument of the methods is to avoid mesh regeneration procedure when solving moving interface…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-05-01 Ruchi Guo

We study the coupled surface and grain boundary motion in a bicrystal in the context of the "quarter loop" geometry. Two types of physics motions are involved in this model: motion by mean curvature and motion by surface diffusion. The goal…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Zhenguo Pan , Brian Wetton

We develop a numerical method for realizing mean curvature motion of interfaces separating multiple phases, whose areas are preserved throughout time. The foundation of the method is a thresholding algorithm of the Bence-Merriman-Osher…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-04-30 Karel Svadlenka , Elliott Ginder , Seiro Omata
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