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Imposition of free slip boundary conditions in science and engineering simulations presents a challenge when the simulation domain is non-trivial. Inspired by recent progress in symbolic computation of discontinuous Galerkin finite element…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2020-01-30 Nathan Sime , Cian R. Wilson

We study the canonical problem of wave scattering by periodic arrays, either of infinite or finite extent, of Neumann scatterers in the plane; the characteristic lengthscale of the scatterers is considered small relative to the lattice…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-09-28 Richard Wiltshaw , Richard V. Craster , Mehul P. Makwana

Both Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluids may exhibit complex slip behaviour at the boundary. We examine a broad class of slip boundary conditions that generalises the commonly used Navier slip, perfect slip, stick-slip and Tresca friction…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-14 Pablo Alexei Gazca-Orozco , Franz Gmeineder , Erika Maringová Kokavcová , Tabea Tscherpel

Inverse electromagnetic design has emerged as a way of efficiently designing active and passive electromagnetic devices. This maturing strategy involves optimizing the shape or topology of a device in order to improve a figure of merit--a…

Optics · Physics 2018-12-05 Andrew Michaels , Eli Yablonovitch

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

This paper presents a numerical investigation of acoustic wave propagation in an obstacle with periodically time-modulated material parameters. We focus on the numerical construction of Floquet$-$Bloch solutions, which are quasi-periodic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-22 Jörg Nick , Ralf Hiptmair , Habib Ammari

Problems with localized nonhomogeneous material properties arise frequently in many applications and are a well-known source of difficulty in numerical simulations. In certain applications (including additive manufacturing), the physics of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-22 Alex Viguerie , Silvia Bertoluzza , Ferdinando Auricchio

In this paper, we present a topology optimization (TO) framework to simultaneously optimize the matrix topology and fiber distribution of functionally graded continuous fiber-reinforced composites (FRC). Current approaches in density-based…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2022-05-16 Aaditya Chandrasekhar , Amir Mirzendehdel , Morad Behandish , Krishnan Suresh

The tilted-wave interferometer is a promising technique for the development of a reference measurement system for the highly accurate form measurement of aspheres and freeform surfaces. The technique combines interferometric measurements,…

In disordered materials under mechanical stress, the produced deformation can deviate from the affine one already in the elastic regime. The nonaffine contribution was observed and characterized in numerical simulations for various systems.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-12-17 Alesya Mikhailovskaya , Julien Fade , Jérôme Crassous

We develop a high order cut finite element method for the Stokes problem based on general inf-sup stable finite element spaces. We focus in particular on composite meshes consisting of one mesh that overlaps another. The method is based on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-05-05 August Johansson , Mats G. Larson , Anders Logg

The paper studies a higher order unfitted finite element method for the Stokes system posed on a surface in three-dimensional space. The method employs generalized Taylor-Hood finite element pairs on tetrahedral bulk mesh to discretize the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-03-17 Thomas Jankuhn , Maxim A. Olshanskii , Arnold Reusken , Alexander Zhiliakov

It was recently shown that vortex-like topological defects with negative winding number in the vibrational modes of a two-dimensional glass under quasistatic shear correlate strongly with plastic events, offering a promising route to…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-12-16 Long-Zhou Huang , Xu Yang , Min-Qiang Jiang , Yun-Jiang Wang , Matteo Baggioli

The Nitsche method is a method of "weak imposition" of the inhomogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions for partial differential equations. This paper explains stability and convergence study of the Nitsche method applied to evolutionary…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-03-28 Yuki Ueda , Norikazu Saito

We formulate and analyze a Nitsche-type algorithm for frictional contact problems. The method is derived from, and analyzed as, a stabilized finite element method and shown to be quasi-optimal, as well as suitable as an adaptive scheme…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-24 Tom Gustafsson , Juha Videman

The dispersive wave propagation in a periodic metamaterial with tetrachiral topology and inertial local resonators is investigated. The Floquet-Bloch spectrum of the metamaterial is compared with that of the tetrachiral beam lattice…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-05-24 Andrea Bacigalupo , Giorgio Gnecco , Marco Lepidi , Luigi Gambarotta

We consider a time-harmonic wave problem, appearing for example in water-waves and in acoustics, in a setting such that the analysis reduces to the study of a 2D waveguide problem with a Neumann boundary condition. The geometry is symmetric…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-05-31 Lucas Chesnel , Sergei A. Nazarov , Vincent Pagneux

We enable density-based topology optimization (TO) to design integrated photonic devices featuring nonvertical sidewall profiles. Specifically, we demonstrate TO for fabrication processes with slanted sidewalls which are often used to…

This paper develops a computational framework with unfitted meshes to solve linear piezoelectricity and flexoelectricity electromechanical boundary value problems including strain gradient elasticity at infinitesimal strains. The high-order…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-10-08 David Codony , Onofre Marco , Sonia Fernández-Méndez , Irene Arias

Photonic structures with topologically nontrivial bands are usually designed by arranging simple meta-atoms, ideally, single-mode ones, in a carefully designed photonic lattice with symmetry that guarantees the emergence of topological…

Optics · Physics 2020-10-21 Roman S. Savelev , Maxim A. Gorlach