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We present a field formulation for defects that draws from the classical representation of the cores as force dipoles. We write these dipoles as singular distributions. Exploiting the key insight that the variational setting is the only…
Geometric continuum models for fluid lipid membranes are considered using classical field theory, within a covariant variational approach. The approach is cast as a higher-derivative Lagrangian formulation of continuum classical field…
We develop a new finite difference method for the wave equation in second order form. The finite difference operators satisfy a summation-by-parts (SBP) property. With boundary conditions and material interface conditions imposed weakly by…
High-order methods for conservation laws can be highly efficient if their stability is ensured. A suitable means mimicking estimates of the continuous level is provided by summation-by-parts (SBP) operators and the weak enforcement of…
Universal difference quotient representations are introduced for the exact self-sameness principles (SSP) as rules for rates of change introduced in [Clemence-Mkhope, D.P (2021, Preprint). The Exact Spectral Derivative Discretization Finite…
We show convexity of solutions to a class of convex variational problems in the Gauss and in the Wiener space. An important tool in the proof is a representation formula for integral functionals in this infinite dimensional setting, that…
The use of global displacement basis functions to solve boundary-value problems in linear elasticity is well established. No prior work uses a global stress tensor basis for such solutions. We present two such methods for solving stress…
The objective of this paper is to propose a hyperbolic relaxation technique for the dispersive Serre-Green-Naghdi equations (also known as the fully non-linear Boussinesq equations) with full topography effects introduced in Green, A.E. and…
We consider a relaxed notion of energy of non-parametric codimension one surfaces that takes account of area, mean curvature, and Gauss curvature. It is given by the best value obtained by approximation with inscribed polyhedral surfaces.…
We present a unified framework for the calculation of defect energies for those defects that can be represented as a superposition of isolated dislocations, and obtain both self and interaction energies of combinations of grain boundaries…
We present extensions of rigidity estimates and of Korn's inequality to the setting of (mixed) variable exponents growth. The proof techniques, based on a classical covering argument, rely on the log-H\"older continuity of the exponent to…
This paper constitutes our initial effort in developing sparse grid discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods for high-dimensional partial differential equations (PDEs). Over the past few decades, DG methods have gained popularity in many…
In this paper, our discussion mainly focuses on equations with energy supercritical nonlinearities. We establish probabilistic global well-posedness (GWP) results for the cubic Schr\"odinger equation with any fractional power of the…
The paper develops a new integral micromorphic elastic continuum model, which can describe dispersion properties of band-gap metamaterials, i.e., metamaterials that inhibit propagation of waves in a certain frequency range. The enrichment…
In this paper, we investigate the energy decay of the solution to a viscoelastic wave equation with variable exponents logarithmic nonlinearity and weak damping in a bounded domain. We establish an explicit general decay result under mild…
This article is the second of a three-part series that derives a self-consistent theoretical framework of the electromechanics of arbitrarily curved lipid membranes. Existing continuum theories commonly treat lipid membranes as strictly…
Structure-preserving particle methods have recently been proposed for a class of nonlinear continuity equations, including aggregation-diffusion equation in [J. Carrillo, K. Craig, F. Patacchini, Calc. Var., 58 (2019), pp. 53] and the…
Two-particle Green's functions and the vertex functions play a critical role in theoretical frameworks for describing strongly correlated electron systems. However, numerical calculations at two-particle level often suffer from large…
This paper extends the distributed rolling contact FrBD framework to linear viscoelasticity by considering classic derivative Generalised Maxwell and Kelvin-Voigt rheological representations of the bristle element. With this modelling…
In this paper a we derive by means of $\Gamma$-convergence a macroscopic strain-gradient plasticity from a semi-discrete model for dislocations in an infinite cylindrical crystal. In contrast to existing work, we consider an energy with…