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We develop a general framework for construction and analysis of discrete extension operators with application to unfitted finite element approximation of partial differential equations. In unfitted methods so called cut elements intersected…

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We study mixed finite element methods for the linearized rotating shallow water equations with linear drag and forcing terms. By means of a strong energy estimate for an equivalent second-order formulation for the linearized momentum, we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-10-02 Colin J. Cotter , Robert C. Kirby

The paper presents a generalization of Arnold-Falk-Winther elements for three dimensional linear elasticity, to meshes with elements of variable order. The generalization is straightforward but the stability analysis involves a non-trivial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2010-06-08 Weifeng Qiu , Leszek Demkowicz

Matrix stiffness expressions are derived for the particle movements in an assembly of rigid granules having compliant contacts. The derivations include stiffness terms that arise from the particle shapes at their contacts. These geometric…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-01-23 Matthew R. Kuhn , Ching S. Chang

A new method is proposed for integrating the equations of motion of an elastic filament. In the standard finite-difference and finite-element formulations the continuum equations of motion are discretized in space and time, but it is then…

Computational Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Anthony JC Ladd , Gaurav Misra

In many applications, thin shell-like structures are integrated within or attached to volumetric bodies. This includes reinforcements placed in soft matrix material in lightweight structure design, or hollow structures that are partially or…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-10 Astrid Pechstein , Michael Neunteufel

We develop a theoretical framework for the analysis of stabilized cut finite element methods for the Laplace-Beltrami operator on a manifold embedded in $\mathbb{R}^d$ of arbitrary codimension. The method is based on using continuous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-10-07 Erik Burman , Peter Hansbo , Mats G. Larson , Andre Massing

We develop a cut finite element method for the Darcy problem on surfaces. The cut finite element method is based on embedding the surface in a three dimensional finite element mesh and using finite element spaces defined on the three…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-10-11 Peter Hansbo , Mats G. Larson , Andre Massing

The Tangential-Displacement Normal-Normal-Stress (TDNNS) method is a finite element method that was originally introduced for elastic solids and later extended to piezoelectric materials. It uses tangential components of the displacement…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-01-22 Martin Meindlhumer , Astrid Pechstein

In this work, we present and analyze a fully-mixed finite element scheme for the dynamic poroelasticity problem in the low-frequency regime. We write the problem as a four-field, first-order, hyperbolic system of equations where the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-12 Stefano Bonetti , Michele Botti , Patrick Vega

We develop a cut finite element method (CutFEM) for convection-diffusion problems posed on mixed-dimensional domains, i.e., unions of manifolds of different dimensions arranged in a hierarchical structure where lower-dimensional components…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-09 Erik Burman , Peter Hansbo , Mats G. Larson , Karl Larsson , Shantiram Mahata

The properties of a hinged floating elastic sheet of finite length under compression are considered. Numerical continuation is used to compute spatially localized buckled states with many spatially localized folds. Both symmetric and…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2019-04-24 Leonardo Gordillo , Edgar Knobloch

This paper develops a geometric framework for the stability analysis of differential inclusions governed by maximally monotone operators. A key structural decomposition expresses the operator as the sum of a convexified limit mapping and a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-18 Hassan Saoud , Michel Théra , Minh N. Dao

A precise domain triangulation is recognized as indispensable for the accurate numerical approximation of differential operators within collocation methods, leading to a substantial reduction in discretization errors. An efficient finite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-15 G. Shylaja , V. Kesavulu Naidu , B. Venkatesh , S. M. Mallikarjunaiah

We develop a new optimisation technique that combines multiresolution subdivision surfaces for boundary description with immersed finite elements for the discretisation of the primal and adjoint problems of optimisation. Similar to wavelets…

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Mixed methods for linear elasticity with strongly symmetric stresses of lowest order are studied in this paper. On each simplex, the stress space has piecewise linear components with respect to its Alfeld split (which connects the vertices…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-18 Jay Gopalakrishnan , Johnny Guzman , Jeonghun J. Lee

The pinning of an inhomogeneous elastic medium by a disordered substrate is studied analytically and numerically. The static and dynamic properties of a $D$-dimensional system are shown to be equivalent to those of the well known problem of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-30 D. Cule , T. Hwa

We introduce a new discretization of a mixed formulation of the incompressible Stokes equations that includes symmetric viscous stresses. The method is built upon a mass conserving mixed formulation that we recently studied. The improvement…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-20 Jay Gopalakrishnan , Philip L. Lederer , Joachim Schöberl

In this paper, we design two classes of stabilized mixed finite element methods for linear elasticity on simplicial grids. In the first class of elements, we use $\boldsymbol{H}(\mathbf{div}, \Omega; \mathbb{S})$-$P_k$ and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-10-28 Long Chen , Jun Hu , Xuehai Huang