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In this paper, we develop a multiscale finite element method for solving flows in fractured media. Our approach is based on Generalized Multiscale Finite Element Method (GMsFEM), where we represent the fracture effects on a coarse grid via…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-02-16 Yalchin Efendiev , Seong Lee , Guanglian Li , Jun Yao , Na Zhang

This work investigates the existing capabilities and limitations in numerical modeling of fracture problems in functionally graded materials (FGMs) by means of the well-known finite element code ABAQUS. Quasi-static crack initiation and…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-11-02 Emilio Martínez-Pañeda , Rafael Gallego

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

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-06 Victor Dominguez , Alejandro Duque

The Finite Element Method (FEM) is a powerful modeling tool for predicting soft robots' behavior, but its computation time can limit practical applications. In this paper, a learning-based approach based on condensation of the FEM model is…

Rigorous computer simulations of propagating electromagnetic fields have become an important tool for optical metrology and design of nanostructured optical components. A vectorial finite element method (FEM) is a good choice for an…

Optics · Physics 2009-05-28 L. Zschiedrich , S. Burger , A. Schädle , F. Schmidt

Critical sized bone defects remain a major clinical challenge, requiring scaffolds that combine mechanical stability with regenerative capacity. Functionally graded (FG) scaffolds, inspired by the graded architecture of native bone, offer a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-11-04 Ali Entezari , Vahid Badali , Sara Checa

We present the Finite Element Method (FEM) for the numerical solution of the multidimensional coefficient inverse problem (MCIP) in two dimensions. This method is used for explicit reconstruction of the coefficient in the hyperbolic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-03-25 L. Beilina

We discuss realization, properties and performance of the adaptive finite element approach to the design of nano-photonic components. Central issues are the construction of vectorial finite elements and the embedding of bounded components…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-13 Jan Pomplun , Sven Burger , Lin Zschiedrich , Frank Schmidt

Accurately depicting multiphysics interactions in interfacial systems requires computational frameworks capable of reconciling geometric adaptability with strict conservation fidelity. However, traditional spatiotemporal discretisation…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Suhaib Ardah , Francisco J. Profito , Daniele Dini

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

The aim of this paper is to provide a survey of the state of the art in the finite element approach to the Immersed Boundary Method (FE-IBM) which has been investigated by the authors during the last decade. In a unified setting, we present…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-07-22 Daniele Boffi , Lucia Gastaldi

In many industries, including aerospace and defense, waveform analysis is commonly conducted to compute the resonance of physical objects, with the Finite Element Method (FEM) being the standard approach. The Finite Difference Method (FDM)…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-09 Juliette Florin

Deformable fractured porous media appear in many geoscience applications. While the extended finite element (XFEM) has been successfully developed within the computational mechanics community for accurate modeling of the deformation, its…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-04-07 Fanxiang Xu , Hadi Hajibeygi , Lambertus J. Sluys

The difficulties in dealing with discontinuities related to a sharp crack are overcome in the phase-field approach for fracture by modeling the crack as a diffusive object being described by a continuous field having high gradients. The…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Sindhu Nagaraja , Mohamed Elhaddad , Marreddy Ambati , Stefan Kollmannsberger , Laura De Lorenzis , Ernst Rank

Deformable elastic bodies in viscous and viscoelastic media constitute a large portion of synthetic and biological complex fluids. We present a parallelized 3D-simulation methodology which fully resolves the momentum balance in the solid…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-03-11 Amir Saadat , Chris J. Guido , Gianluca Iaccarino , Eric S. G. Shaqfeh

In this paper we describe a computational model for the simulation of fluid-structure interaction problems based on a fictitious domain approach. We summarize the results presented over the last years when our research evolved from the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-29 Daniele Boffi , Lucia Gastaldi

We present a finite element method (FEM) solver for computation of optical resonance modes in VCSELs. We perform a convergence study and demonstrate that high accuracies for 3D setups can be attained on standard computers. We also…

Optics · Physics 2012-03-02 M. Rozova , J. Pomplun , L. Zschiedrich , F. Schmidt , S. Burger

Numerical methods such as the Finite Element Method (FEM) have been successfully adapted to utilize the computational power of GPU accelerators. However, much of the effort around applying FEM to GPU's has been focused on high-order FEM due…

The virtual element method (VEM) is a stabilized Galerkin method that is robust and accurate on general polygonal meshes. This feature makes it an appealing candidate for simulations involving meshes with embedded interfaces and evolving…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-03 Ramsharan Rangarajan , N. Sukumar