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Variational regularization techniques are dominant in the field of mathematical imaging. A drawback of these techniques is that they are dependent on a number of parameters which have to be set by the user. A by now common strategy to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-10 Matthias J. Ehrhardt , Lindon Roberts

Many important physical problems, such as fluid structure interaction or conjugate heat transfer, require numerical methods that compute boundary derivatives or fluxes to high accuracy. This paper proposes a novel alternative to calculating…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-03-12 David Wells , Jeffrey Banks

We present the analytical formulation and the finite element solution of a fractional-order nonlocal continuum model of a Euler-Bernoulli beam. Employing consistent definitions for the fractional-order kinematic relations, the governing…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-02-11 Sansit Patnaik , Sai Sidhardh , Fabio Semperlotti

The FETI-DP algorithms, proposed by the authors in [SIAM J. Numer. Anal., 51 (2013), pp.~1235--1253] and [Internat. J. Numer. Methods Engrg., 94 (2013), pp.~128--149] for solving incompressible Stokes equations, are extended to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-04-24 Xuemin Tu , Jing Li

We develop a cut finite element method (CutFEM) for convection-diffusion problems posed on mixed-dimensional domains, i.e., unions of manifolds of different dimensions arranged in a hierarchical structure where lower-dimensional components…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-09 Erik Burman , Peter Hansbo , Mats G. Larson , Karl Larsson , Shantiram Mahata

Since the 1960's the finite element method emerged as a powerful tool for the numerical simulation of countless physical phenomena or processes in applied sciences. One of the reasons for this undeniable success is the great versatility of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-12-05 Vitoriano Ruas

We present a domain decomposition strategy for developing structure-preserving finite element discretizations from data when exact governing equations are unknown. On subdomains, trainable Whitney form elements are used to identify…

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This work deals with shape optimization for contact mechanics. More specifically, the linear elasticity model is considered under the small deformations hypothesis, and the elastic body is assumed to be in contact (sliding or with Tresca…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-30 Bastien Chaudet-Dumas

This paper develops and investigates a new method for the application of Dirichlet boundary conditions for computational models defined by point clouds. Point cloud models often stem from laser or structured-light scanners which are used to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-11-15 Frank Hartmann , Stefan Kollmannsberger

The Boundary Element Method (BEM) is implemented using piecewise linear elements to solve the two-dimensional Dirichlet problem for Laplace's equation posed on a disk. A benefit of the BEM as opposed to many other numerical solution…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-23 Misael M. Morales , Shirley Pomeranz

We present a multigrid method for an unfitted finite element discretization of the Dirichlet boundary value problem. The discretization employs Nitsche's method to implement the boundary condition and additional face based ghost penalties…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-18 Cu Cui , Guido Kanschat

Shape optimization methods have been proven useful for identifying interfaces in models governed by partial differential equations. Here we consider a class of shape optimization problems constrained by nonlocal equations which involve…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-07-26 Volker Schulz , Matthias Schuster , Christian Vollmann

In the present paper we describe a class of algorithms for the solution of Laplace's equation on polygonal domains with Neumann boundary conditions. It is well known that in such cases the solutions have singularities near the corners which…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-01-16 Jeremy Hoskins , Manas Rachh

We analyse a Eulerian Finite Element method, combining a Eulerian time-stepping scheme applied to the time-dependent Stokes equations using the CutFEM approach with inf-sup stable Taylor-Hood elements for the spatial discretisation. This is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-08-12 Henry von Wahl , Thomas Richter , Christoph Lehrenfeld

The inverse conductivity problem aims at determining the unknown conductivity inside a bounded domain from boundary measurements. In practical applications, algorithms based on minimizing a regularized residual functional subject to PDE…

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This work investigates an elliptic optimal control problem defined on uncertain domains and discretized by a fictitious domain finite element method and cut elements. Key ingredients of the study are to manage cases considering the usually…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-04-06 Aikaterini Aretaki , Efthymios N. Karatzas

In this note we design a cut finite element method for a low order divergence free element applied to a boundary value problem subject to Stokes' equations. For the imposition of Dirichlet boundary conditions we consider either Nitsche's…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-11-14 Erik Burman , Peter Hansbo , Mats G. Larson

We consider an overdetermined problem for a two phase elliptic operator in divergence form with piecewise constant coefficients. We look for domains such that the solution $u$ of a Dirichlet boundary value problem also satisfies the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-05-05 Lorenzo Cavallina

We study a class of degenerate parabolic equations with boundary point degeneracy in dimensions N>=2 and investigate the associated boundary observability problem by means of shape design. While one-dimensional degenerate models have been…

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