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Materials with network-like microstructure, including polymers, are the backbone for many natural and human-made materials such as gels, biological tissues, metamaterials, and rubbers. Fracture processes in these networked materials are…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-01-29 Ahmed Ghareeb , Ahmed Elbanna

We employ textbook multigrid efficiency (TME), as introduced by Achi Brandt, to construct an asymptotically optimal monolithic multigrid solver for the Stokes system. The geometric multigrid solver builds upon the concept of hierarchical…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Nils Kohl , Ulrich Rüde

This work develops a nonlinear multigrid method for diffusion problems discretized by cell-centered finite volume methods on general unstructured grids. The multigrid hierarchy is constructed algebraically using aggregation of degrees of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-10-29 Chak Shing Lee , François Hamon , Nicola Castelletto , Panayot S. Vassilevski , Joshua White

This paper introduces a novel geometric multigrid solver for unstructured curved surfaces. Multigrid methods are highly efficient iterative methods for solving systems of linear equations. Despite the success in solving problems defined on…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-05-05 Hsueh-Ti Derek Liu , Jiayi Eris Zhang , Mirela Ben-Chen , Alec Jacobson

We present a mesh-independent and parameter-robust multigrid solver for the Scott-Vogelius discretisation of the nearly incompressible linear elasticity equations on meshes with a macro element structure. The discretisation achieves exact…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-03-22 Patrick E. Farrell , Lawrence Mitchell , L. Ridgway Scott , Florian Wechsung

Computing the stiffness matrix for the finite element discretization of the nonlocal Laplacian on unstructured meshes is difficult, because the operator is nonlocal and can even be singular. In this paper, we focus on the $C^0$-piecewise…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-30 Changtao Sheng , Huiyuan Li , Huifang Yuan , Li-Lian Wang

This work is devoted to the development of an efficient and robust technique for accurate capturing of the electric field in multi-material problems. The formulation is based on the finite element method enriched by the introduction of…

The developed computational approach is capable of initiating and propagating cracks inside materials and along material interfaces of general multi-domain structures under quasi-static conditions. Special attention is paid to particular…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Roman Vodička

Cut finite element method (CutFEM) based approaches towards challenging fluid-structure interaction (FSI) are proposed. The different considered methods combine the advantages of competing novel Eulerian (fixed-grid) and established…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2018-07-31 Benedikt Schott , Christoph Ager , Wolfgang A. Wall

I propose a vertex patch smoother where local problems are solved inexactly by a nested, matrix-free p-multigrid, creating a multigrid-within-multigrid framework. A single iteration of the local solver can be evaluated with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-21 Michał Wichrowski

Fourth-order differential equations play an important role in many applications in science and engineering. In this paper, we present a three-field mixed finite-element formulation for fourth-order problems, with a focus on the effective…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-13 Patrick E. Farrell , Abdalaziz Hamdan , Scott P. MacLachlan

In this article, we introduce a fast and memory efficient solver for sparse matrices arising from the finite element discretization of elliptic partial differential equations (PDEs). We use a fast direct (but approximate) multifrontal…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2015-04-23 AmirHossein Aminfar , Eric Darve

The predicted reduced resiliency of next-generation high performance computers means that it will become necessary to take into account the effects of randomly occurring faults on numerical methods. Further, in the event of a hard fault…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-09-07 Mark Ainsworth , Christian Glusa

We propose and investigate a novel solution strategy to efficiently and accurately compute approximate solutions to semilinear optimal control problems, focusing on the optimal control of phase field formulations of geometric evolution…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-02-01 F. Yang , C. Venkataraman , V. Styles , A. Madzvamuse

In this paper, we consider a poroelasticity problem in heterogeneous multicontinuum media that is widely used in simulations of the unconventional hydrocarbon reservoirs and geothermal fields. Mathematical model contains a coupled system of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-08-07 Aleksei Tyrylgin , Maria Vasilyeva , Denis Spiridonov , Eric T. Chung

The paper develops a finite element method for partial differential equations posed on hypersurfaces in $\mathbb{R}^N$, $N=2,3$. The method uses traces of bulk finite element functions on a surface embedded in a volumetric domain. The bulk…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-19 Alexey Y. Chernyshenko , Maxim A. Olshanskii

This research rigorously investigates the convergence of adaptive finite element methods for regularized variational models of quasi-static brittle fracture in elastic solids. We specifically examine a novel Ambrosio-Tortorelli (AT1)…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-02 Ram Manohar , S. M. Mallikarjunaiah

This work presents the Griffith-type phase-field formation at large deformation in the framework of adaptive edge-based smoothed finite element method (ES-FEM) for the first time. Therein the phase-field modeling of fractures has attracted…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-11-09 Fucheng Tian , Xiaoliang Tang , Tingyu Xu , Liangbin Li

We develop a robust solver for a mixed finite element convex splitting scheme for the Cahn-Hilliard equation. The key ingredient of the solver is a preconditioned minimal residual algorithm (with a multigrid preconditioner) whose…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-09-14 Susanne C. Brenner , Amanda E. Diegel , Li-Yeng Sung

The phase field method is an effective tool for modeling microstructure evolution in materials. Many efficient implicit numerical solvers have been proposed for phase field simulations under uniform and time-invariant model parameters. We…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-23 Zirui Mao , G. R. Liu , Michael J. Demkowicz