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Fast multipole methods (FMM) were originally developed for accelerating $N$-body problems for particle-based methods. FMM is more than an $N$-body solver, however. Recent efforts to view the FMM as an elliptic Partial Differential Equation…

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The phase separation processes are typically modeled by Cahn-Hilliard equations. This equation was originally introduced to model phase separation in binary alloys, where phase stands for concentration of different components in alloy. When…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2016-01-14 Pawan Kumar

The aggregated unfitted finite element method (AgFEM) is a methodology recently introduced in order to address conditioning and stability problems associated with embedded, unfitted, or extended finite element methods. The method is based…

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This paper presents a spectral element finite element scheme that efficiently solves elliptic problems on unstructured hexahedral meshes. The discrete equations are solved using a matrix-free preconditioned conjugate gradient algorithm. An…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2016-09-21 J. -F. Remacle , R. Gandham , T. Warburton

Variational phase-field methods have been shown powerful for the modeling of complex crack propagation without a priori knowledge of the crack path or ad hoc criteria. However, phase-field models suffer from their energy functional being…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2021-09-15 O. Lampron , D. Therriault , M. Lévesque

Multiphase flow is a critical process in a wide range of applications, including oil and gas recovery, carbon sequestration, and contaminant remediation. Numerical simulation of multiphase flow requires solving of a large, sparse linear…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-03-14 Quan M. Bui , Lu Wang , Daniel Osei-Kuffuor

We present a matrix-free flow solver for high-order finite element discretizations of the incompressible Navier-Stokes and Stokes equations with GPU acceleration. For high polynomial degrees, assembling the matrix for the linear systems…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-21 Michael Franco , Jean-Sylvain Camier , Julian Andrej , Will Pazner

The time harmonic Maxwell equations are of current interest in computational science and applied mathematics with many applications in modern physics. In this work, we present parallel finite element solver for the time harmonic Maxwell…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-26 Sven Beuchler , Sebastian Kinnewig , Thomas Wick

Multigrid methods are asymptotically optimal algorithms ideal for large-scale simulations. But, they require making numerous algorithmic choices that significantly influence their efficiency. Unlike recent approaches that learn optimal…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Dinesh Parthasarathy , Tommaso Bevilacqua , Martin Lanser , Axel Klawonn , Harald Köstler

A method of numerically solving the Maxwell equations is considered for modeling harmonic electromagnetic fields. The vector finite element method makes it possible to obtain a physically consistent discretization of the differential…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-05 Andrew V. Terekhov

We investigate the performance of multigrid preconditioners for solving linear systems arising from finite element discretizations of elliptic interface problems using the Fictitious Domain with Distributed Lagrange Multipliers (FD-DLM)…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-04 Najwa Alshehri , Daniele Boffi , Chayapol Chaoveeraprasit

We present the numerical methods and GPU-accelerated implementation underlying a Total Lagrangian finite element framework for finite-deformation flexible multibody dynamics, introduced in the companion paper [1]. The framework supports…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Zhenhao Zhou , Ruochun Zhang , Ganesh Arivoli , Dan Negrut

The efficient solution of moderately large-scale linear systems arising from the KKT conditions in optimal control problems (OCPs) is a critical challenge in robotics. With the stagnation of Moore's law, there is growing interest in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-21 Shaohui Yang , Toshiyuki Ohtsuka , Brian Plancher , Colin N. Jones

The discontinuous Galerkin time-stepping method has many advantageous properties for solving parabolic equations. However, it requires the solution of a large nonsymmetric system at each time-step. This work develops a fully robust and…

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Fourier solvers have become efficient tools to establish structure-property relations in heterogeneous materials. Introduced as an alternative to the Finite Element (FE) method, they are based on fixed-point solutions of the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-09-01 Jan Zeman , Tom W. J. de Geus , Jaroslav Vondřejc , Ron H. J. Peerlings , Marc G. D. Geers

Multiphase flow is a critical process in a wide range of applications, including carbon sequestration, contaminant remediation, and groundwater management. Typically, this process is modeled by a nonlinear system of partial differential…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-01-26 Quan M. Bui , Howard C. Elman , J. D. Moulton

We propose a matrix-free solver for the numerical solution of the cardiac electrophysiology model consisting of the monodomain nonlinear reaction-diffusion equation coupled with a system of ordinary differential equations for the ionic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-03-01 Pasquale Claudio Africa , Matteo Salvador , Paola Gervasio , Luca Dede' , Alfio Quarteroni

This paper combines the use of high order finite element methods with parallel preconditioners of domain decomposition type for solving electromagnetic problems arising from brain microwave imaging. The numerical algorithms involved in such…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-03-23 M. Bonazzoli , V. Dolean , F. Rapetti , P. -H. Tournier

We propose three semi-decoupled algorithms for efficiently solving a four-field thermoporoelastic model. The first two algorithms adopt a sequential strategy: at the initial time step, all variables are computed simultaneously using a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-02 Ziliang Li , Mingchao Cai , Jingzhi Li , Qiang Liu