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In this paper we consider the numerical upscaling of the Brinkman equation in the presence of high-contrast permeability fields. We develop and analyze a robust and efficient Generalized Multiscale Finite Element Method (GMsFEM) for the…
The simulation of heat flow through heterogeneous material is important for the design of structural and electronic components. Classical analytical solutions to the heat equation PDE are not known for many such domains, even those having…
A refined a priori error analysis of the lowest order (linear) nonconforming Virtual Element Method (VEM) for approximating a model Poisson problem is developed in both 2D and 3D. A set of new geometric assumptions is proposed on shape…
A new finite element method (FEM) using meshes that do not necessarily align with the interface is developed for two- and three-dimensional anisotropic elliptic interface problems with nonhomogeneous jump conditions. The degrees of freedom…
In this work we present an extension of the Virtual Element Method with curved edges for the numerical approximation of the second order wave equation in a bidimensional setting. Curved elements are used to describe the domain boundary, as…
In this paper, we develop the constraint energy minimization generalized multiscale finite element method (CEM-GMsFEM) in mixed formulation applied to parabolic equations with heterogeneous diffusion coefficients. The construction of the…
Numerical modeling of slope failures seeks to predict two key phenomena: the initiation of failure and the post-failure runout. Currently, most modeling methods for slope failure analysis excel at one of these two but are deficient in the…
We present a multiscale mixed finite element method for solving second order elliptic equations with general $L^{\infty}$-coefficients arising from flow in highly heterogeneous porous media. Our approach is based on a multiscale spectral…
In this work we propose an efficient and accurate multi-scale optical simulation algorithm by applying a numerical version of slowly varying envelope approximation in FEM. Specifically, we employ the fast iterative method to quickly compute…
Partial differential equations can be solved on general polygonal and polyhedral meshes, through Polytopal Element Methods (PEMs). Unfortunately, the relation between geometry and analysis is still unknown and subject to ongoing research in…
In this paper we present a finite element method (FEM) for two-phase incompressible flows with moving contact lines. We use a sharp interface Navier-Stokes model for the bulk phase fluid dynamics. Surface tension forces, including Marangoni…
We introduce a new family of high order accurate semi-implicit schemes for the solution of non-linear hyperbolic partial differential equations on unstructured polygonal meshes. The time discretization is based on a splitting between…
We propose numerical simulations of viscoelastic fluids based on a hybrid algorithm combining Lattice-Boltzmann models (LBM) and Finite Differences (FD) schemes, the former used to model the macroscopic hydrodynamic equations, and the…
The Finite Element Method (FEM) is widely used to solve discrete Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) in engineering and graphics applications. The popularity of FEM led to the development of a large family of variants, most of which…
This paper studies a model of two-phase flow with an immersed material viscous interface and a finite element method for numerical solution of the resulting system of PDEs. The interaction between the bulk and surface media is characterized…
The Finite Element Method (FEM) is a powerful computational tool for solving partial differential equations (PDEs). Although commercial and open-source FEM software packages are widely available, an independent implementation of FEM…
This paper deals with the solution of Maxwell's equations to model the electromagnetic fields in the case of a layered earth. The integrals involved in the solution are approximated by means of a novel approach based on the splitting of the…
In this paper, we present two adaptive methods for the basis enrichment of the mixed Generalized Multiscale Finite Element Method (GMsFEM) for solving the flow problem in heterogeneous media. We develop an a-posteriori error indicator which…
Fluid flow in rough fractures and the coupling with the mechanical behaviour of the fractures pose great difficulties for numerical modeling approaches, due to complex fracture surface topographies, the non-linearity of hydromechanical…
Complex mechanic systems simulation is important in many real-world applications. The de-facto numeric solver using Finite Element Method (FEM) suffers from computationally intensive overhead. Though with many progress on the reduction of…