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Using the method of equivariant moving frames, we present a procedure for constructing symmetry-preserving finite element methods for second-order ordinary differential equations. Using the method of lines, we then indicate how our…
Atomic diffusion affects the properties of various engineering materials, which predominantly occur in the polycrystalline state. A rigorous description of polycrystalline diffusion must therefore account for crystallographic defects,…
We develop a parametric cut finite element method for elliptic boundary value problems with corner singularities where we have weighted control of higher order derivatives of the solution to a neighborhood of a point at the boundary. Our…
In this talk I will discuss an example of the use of fully nonlinear parabolic flows to prove geometric results. I will emphasise the fact that there is a wide variety of geometric parabolic equations to choose from, and to get the best…
In this article, we study superconvergence properties of immersed finite element methods for the one dimensional elliptic interface problem. Due to low global regularity of the solution, classical superconvergence phenomenon for finite…
We introduce a new class of unfitted finite element methods with high order accurate numerical integration over curved surfaces and volumes which are only implicitly defined by level set functions. An unfitted finite element method which is…
We propose new formulations of geometric curvature flows -- referred to as \emph{dual formulations} -- that are equivalent to the original formulations but provide a novel framework for constructing linearly implicit and energy-stable…
In this paper, we propose an unfitted finite element method to solve PDE-constrained shape optimization problems via shape gradient flow. The shape gradient flow system consists of the state equation, the adjoint equation, the velocity…
In this paper we study a system of advection-diffusion equations in a bulk domain coupled to an advection-diffusion equation on an embedded surface. Such systems of coupled partial differential equations arise in, for example, the modeling…
We propose consistent locally stabilized, conforming finite element schemes on completely unstructured simplicial space-time meshes for the numerical solution of non-autonomous parabolic evolution problems under the assumption of maximal…
We present a locally adapted parametric finite element method for interface problems. For this adapted finite element method we show optimal convergence for elliptic interface problems with a discontinuous diffusion parameter. The method is…
Cellular morphodynamics requires solving systems of coupled partial differential equations on moving bulk and surface domains, where advection-dominant transport, structure preservation, and severe mesh distortions make robust simulation…
Mean curvature flow is the most natural evolution equation in extrinsic geometry, and shares many features with Hamilton's Ricci flow from intrinsic geometry. In this lecture series, I will provide an introduction to the mean curvature flow…
Accurate modeling of moving boundaries and interfaces is a difficulty present in many situations of computational mechanics. We use the eXtreme Mesh deformation approach (X-Mesh) to simulate the interaction between two immiscible flows…
In this study, we propose a parametric finite element method for a degenerate multi-phase Stefan problem with triple junctions. This model describes the energy-driven motion of a surface cluster whose distributional solution was studied by…
We show the consistency of a threshold dynamics type algorithm for the anisotropic motion by fractional mean curvature, in the presence of a time dependent forcing term. Beside the consistency result, we show that convex sets remain convex…
In this paper we consider finite element approaches to computing the mean curvature vector and normal at the vertices of piecewise linear triangulated surfaces. In particular, we adopt a stabilization technique which allows for first order…
In this work, we aim to develop energy-stable parametric finite element approximations for a sharp-interface model with strong surface energy anisotropy, which is derived from the first variation of an energy functional composed of…
Since the 1960's the finite element method emerged as a powerful tool for the numerical simulation of countless physical phenomena or processes in applied sciences. One of the reasons for this undeniable success is the great versatility of…
An important step in shape optimization with partial differential equation constraints is to adapt the geometry during each optimization iteration. Common strategies are to employ mesh-deformation or re-meshing, where one or the other…