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We present a 3D hybrid method which combines the Finite Element Method (FEM) and the Spectral Boundary Integral method (SBIM) to model nonlinear problems in unbounded domains. The flexibility of FEM is used to model the complex,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-02-18 Gabriele Albertini , Ahmed Elbanna , David S. Kammer

This work focuses on a class of elliptic boundary value problems with diffusive, advective and reactive terms, motivated by the study of three-dimensional heterogeneous physical systems composed of two or more media separated by a selective…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-04-20 Riccardo Sacco , Aurelio Giancarlo Mauri , Giovanna Guidoboni

In this paper, we study the stability and convergence of a decoupled and linearized mixed finite element method (FEM) for incompressible miscible displacement in a porous media whose permeability and porosity are discontinuous across some…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-06-18 Buyang Li , Hongxing Rui , Chaoxia Yang

We propose an energy-stable parametric finite element method (ES-PFEM) for simulating solid-state dewetting of thin films in two dimensions via a sharp-interface model, which is governed by surface diffusion and contact line (point)…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-08 Quan Zhao , Wei Jiang , Weizhu Bao

In order to simulate elastic wave propagation in a complex structure with inhomogeneous media, we often need to obtain the propagating eigenmodes of an elastic waveguide. As the waveguide is assumed uniform in one direction, the original…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-08-18 An Qi Ge , Ming Wei Zhuang , Jie Liu , Qing Huo Liu

This paper deals with the asymptotic behavior and FEM error analysis of a class of strongly damped wave equations using a semidiscrete finite element method in spatial directions combined with a finite difference scheme in the time…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-03 Krishan Kumar , P. Danumjaya , Anil Kumar , Amiya K. Pani

Time domain simulations of electromagnetic problems are highly valuable in engineering applications, as they allow for the analysis of transient behavior and broadband responses. These simulations utilize time stepping schemes, where each…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-10-23 Ruth Medeiros , Valentin de la Rubia

We report a new computational model for simulations of electromagnetic interactions with semiconductor quantum well(s) (SQW) in complex electromagnetic geometries using the finite difference time domain (FDTD) method. The presented model is…

Optics · Physics 2015-03-20 Koustuban Ravi , Qian Wang , Seng-Tiong Ho

Quantum simulations of metal surfaces are critical for catalytic innovation. Yet existing methods face a cost-accuracy dilemma: density functional theory is efficient but system-dependent in accuracy, while wavefunction-based theories are…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-04-10 Changsu Cao , Hung Q. Pham , Zhen Guo , Yutan Zhang , Zigeng Huang , Xuelan Wen , Ji Chen , Dingshun Lv

This paper develops and analyzes a fully discrete finite element method for a class of semilinear stochastic partial differential equations (SPDEs) with multiplicative noise. The nonlinearity in the diffusion term of the SPDEs is assumed to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-11-22 Xiaobing Feng , Yukun Li , Yi Zhang

An accurate, physically-based, and differentiable model of soft robots can unlock downstream applications in optimal control. The Finite Element Method (FEM) is an expressive approach for modeling highly deformable structures such as…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Mathieu Dubied , Mike Michelis , Andrew Spielberg , Robert Katzschmann

A nonlinear Helmholtz equation (NLH) with high wave number and Sommerfeld radiation condition is approximated by the perfectly matched layer (PML) technique and then discretized by the linear finite element method (FEM).…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-07-12 Run Jiang , Yonglin Li , Haijun Wu , Jun Zou

As semiconductor devices scale to new dimensions, the materials and designs become more dependent on atomic details. NEMO5 is a nanoelectronics modeling package designed for comprehending the critical multi-scale, multi-physics phenomena…

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In this note we study a fractional Poisson-Nernst-Planck equation modeling a semiconductor device. We prove several decay estimates for the Lebesgue and Sobolev norms in one, two and three dimensions. We also provide the first term of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-11-23 Rafael Granero-Belinchón

This paper presents an asymptotically compatible error bound for the finite element method (FEM) applied to a nonlocal diffusion model. The analysis covers two scenarios: meshes with and without shape regularity. For shape-regular meshes,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-06 Yanzun Meng , Zuoqiang Shi

This paper delivers a software -- libEMM -- for 3D controlled-source electromagnetics (CSEM) modelling in fictitious wave domain, based on the newly developed high-order finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method on non-uniform grid. The…

Geophysics · Physics 2023-05-03 Pengliang Yang

In this article we propose two novel 3D finite element models, denoted method A and B, for electron and hole Drift-Diffusion (DD) current densities. Method A is based on a primal-mixed formulation of the DD model as a function of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-12-12 Aurelio Mauri , Andrea Bortolossi , Giovanni Novielli , Riccardo Sacco

This work develops a polygonal finite element method (PFEM) for the analysis of steady-state and transient thermal stresses in two dimensional continua. The method employs Wachspress rational basis functions to construct conforming…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-23 Yang Yang , Mingjiao Yan , Zongliang Zhang , Dengmiao Hao , Xuedong Chen , Weixiong Chen

The finite element method (FEM) and the boundary element method (BEM) can numerically solve the Helmholtz system for acoustic wave propagation. When an object with heterogeneous wave speed or density is embedded in an unbounded exterior…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-11-29 Elwin van 't Wout

We present a full-vector finite element method (FEM) mode solver for dielectric waveguides based on a mixed Nedelec-Lagrange discretization of Maxwell's curl equations in the frequency domain. The formulation combines edge elements for…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-15 Ergun Simsek