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We present a numerical procedure allowing one to extract Feshbach resonance parameters from numerical calculations without relying on approximate fitting procedures. Our approach is based on a simple decomposition of the reactance matrix in…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2021-12-08 Andrea Simoni

In this paper, we introduce a novel unfitted finite element method to solve the quad-curl interface problem. We adapt Nitsche's method for curlcurl-conforming elements and double the degrees of freedom on interface elements. To ensure…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-11-28 Hailong Guo , Mingyan Zhang , Qian Zhang , Zhimin Zhang

A spectrally formulated finite element analysis based methodology has been proposed to calculate phononic band structure of reticulated honeycomb lattices having translationally invariant repetitive elements called unit cells. Bloch…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-09-30 Sushovan Mukherjee , S. Gopalakrishnan

This work concentrates on numerical simulations of Photonic Crystal structures using basis-expansion methods, with a main focus on simulating disorder. The plane-wave and guided-mode expansions are outlined as tools to compute the Bloch…

Optics · Physics 2015-08-20 Momchil Minkov

We prove an optimal error estimate for the flux variable for a stabilized unfitted Nitsche finite element method applied to an elliptic interface problem with discontinuous constant coefficients. Our result shows explicitly that this error…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-10-18 Erik Burman , Johnny Guzman , Manuel A. Sanchez , Marcus Sarkis

We introduce and analyze a robust nonconforming finite element method for a three dimensional singularly perturbed quad-curl model problem. For the solution of the model problem, we derive proper a priori bounds, based on which, we prove…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-06-27 Baiju Zhang , Zhimin Zhang

We develop a finite element method for elliptic partial differential equations on so called composite surfaces that are built up out of a finite number of surfaces with boundaries that fit together nicely in the sense that the intersection…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-01-03 Peter Hansbo , Tobias Jonsson , Mats G. Larson , Karl Larsson

Acoustic wave propagation through a homogeneous material embedded in an unbounded medium can be formulated as a boundary integral equation and accurately solved with the boundary element method. The computational efficiency deteriorates at…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-02-21 Elwin van 't Wout

We introduce the concept of effective phononic crystals, which combine periodicity with varying isotropic material properties to force periodic coefficients in the elastic equations of motion in a non-Cartesian basis. Periodic coefficients…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-10-28 Ignacio Arretche , Kathryn H. Matlack

We propose a new method to compute band structures of dispersive photonic crystals. It can treat arbitrarily frequency-dependent, lossy or lossless materials. The band structure problem is first formulated as the eigenvalue problem of an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-10-06 Wenqiang Xao , Jiguang Sun

In this paper, we define new unfitted finite element methods for numerically approximating the solution of surface partial differential equations using bulk finite elements. The key idea is that the $n$-dimensional hypersurface, $\Gamma…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-03-21 Klaus Deckelnick , Charles M. Elliott , Thomas Ranner

In this paper, we develop an accurate and efficient framework for computing subwavelength guided modes in high-contrast periodic media with line defects, based on a tight-binding approximation. The physical problem is formulated as an…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Habib Ammari , Erik Orvehed Hiltunen , Ping Liu , Borui Miao , Yi Zhu

This paper concerns the inverse scattering problem to reconstruct a locally perturbed periodic surface. Different from scattering problems with quasi-periodic incident fields and periodic surfaces, the scattered fields are no longer…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-20 Xiaoli Liu , Ruming Zhang

In this paper we propose an analytical method to calculate the band structures of graphene-like nanoribbons of the armchair type with arbitrary line defects or uniaxial strains. The model is based on the tight-binding model and the standing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-18 Yang Xie , Zhijian Hu , Wenhao Ding , Hang Xie

In this paper, a stabilized extended finite element method is proposed for Stokes interface problems on unfitted triangulation elements which do not require the interface align with the triangulation. The velocity solution and pressure…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-01-19 Xiaoxiao He , Fei Song , Weibing Deng

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

Koopmans-compliant functionals provide an orbital-density-dependent framework for an accurate evaluation of spectral properties; they are obtained by imposing a generalized piecewise-linearity condition on the total energy of the system…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-07-06 Riccardo De Gennaro , Nicola Colonna , Edward Linscott , Nicola Marzari

Our goal is to predict the band structure of photonic crystals. This task requires us to compute a number of the smallest non-zero eigenvalues of the time-harmonic Maxwell operator depending on the chosen Bloch boundary conditions. We…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-04-04 Steffen Börm , Ralf Köhl , Nahid Talebi

This work addresses the problem of elastic scattering through a localized impurity in a one-dimensional crystal with sublattice freedom degrees. The impurity yields long-range interferences in the local density of states known as Friedel…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-20 C. Dutreix , P. Delplace

We propose a Generalized Finite-Differences in the Frequency Domain method for the computation of photonic band structures of finite photonic crystals. Our approach is to discretize some fundamental domain instead of a single unit cell,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-02-06 Santiago Bustamante , Esteban Marulanda , Jorge Mahecha , Herbert Vinck