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Variational methods are of fundamental importance and widely used in theoretical physics, especially for strongly interacting systems. In this work, we present a set of variational equations of state (VES) for pure states of an interacting…

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Fluid-particle systems are very common in many natural processes and engineering applications. However, accurately and efficiently modelling fluid-particle systems with complex particle shapes is still a challenging task. Here, we present a…

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Discrete element modelling (DEM) is one of the most efficient computational approaches to the fracture processes of heterogeneous materials on mesoscopic scales. From the dynamics of single crack propagation through the statistics of crack…

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We present a comparison of different numerical techniques for the integration of variational equations. The methods presented can be applied to any autonomous Hamiltonian system whose kinetic energy is quadratic in the generalized momenta,…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2011-06-08 E. Gerlach , Ch. Skokos

Discrete variational methods show excellent performance in numerical simulations of mechanical systems. In this paper, we adapt discrete variational integrators for the case of mechanical systems with double-bracket dissipation. In…

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In this article, we have considered a nonlinear nonlocal time dependent fourth order equation demonstrating the deformation of a thin and narrow rectangular plate. We propose $C^1$ conforming virtual element method (VEM) of arbitrary order,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-08 D. Adak , D. Mora , S. Natarajan

We here investigate the efficient implementation of the energy-conserving methods named Hamiltonian Boundary Value Methods (HBVMs) recently introduced for the numerical solution of Hamiltonian problems. In this note, we describe an…

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We present a virtual element method (VEM) for the numerical approximation of the electromagnetics subsystem of the resistive magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) model in two spatial dimensions. The major advantages of the virtual element method…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-27 S. Naranjo Alvarez , V. A. Bokil , V. Gyrya , G. Manzini

The virtual element method (VEM) is a Galerkin approximation method that extends the finite element method to polytopal meshes. In this paper, we present two different conforming virtual element formulations for the numerical approximation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-12-30 Gianmarco Manzini , Annamaria Mazzia

In this paper, we couple regularization techniques of nondifferentiable optimization with the h-version of the boundary element method (h-BEM) to solve nonsmooth variational problems arising in contact mechanics. As a model example we…

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This manuscript presents the Quantum Finite Element Method (Q-FEM) developed for use in noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) computers and employs the variational quantum linear solver (VQLS) algorithm. The proposed method leverages the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-01 Abhishek Arora , Benjamin M. Ward , Caglar Oskay

Usage, manipulation, transport, delivery, and mixing of granular or particulate media, comprised of spherical or polyhedral particles, is commonly encountered in industrial sectors of construction (cement and rock fragments), pharmaceutics…

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In this paper, we study applications of the virtual element method (VEM) for simulating the deformation of multiphase composites. The VEM is a Galerkin approach that is applicable to meshes that consist of arbitrarily-shaped polygonal and…

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In this work we construct a stochastic contact variational integrator and its discrete version via stochastic Herglotz variational principle for stochastic contact Hamiltonian systems. A general structure-preserving stochastic contact…

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We present a velocity-based moving mesh virtual element method for the numerical solution of PDEs involving moving boundaries. The virtual element method is used for computing both the mesh velocity and a conservative Arbitrary…

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Variational-hemivariational inequalities are an important mathematical framework for nonsmooth problems. The framework can be used to study application problems from physical sciences and engineering that involve non-smooth and even…

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A hybrid framework integrating the Virtual Element Method (VEM) with deep learning is presented as an initial step toward developing efficient and flexible numerical models for one-dimensional Euler-Bernoulli beams. The primary aim is to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Paulo Akira F. Enabe , Rodrigo Provasi

The aim of this paper is to develop a virtual element method (VEM) for the vibration problem of thin plates on polygonal meshes. We consider a variational formulation relying only on the transverse displacement of the plate and propose an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-03-14 David Mora , Gonzalo Rivera , Iván Velásquez

We propose an energy-stable parametric finite element method (ES-PFEM) for simulating solid-state dewetting of thin films in two dimensions via a sharp-interface model, which is governed by surface diffusion and contact line (point)…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-08 Quan Zhao , Wei Jiang , Weizhu Bao

The advantage of using a Discrete Variable Representation (DVR) is that the Hamiltonian of two interacting particles can be constructed in a very simple form. However the DVR Hamiltonian is approximate and, as a consequence, the results…

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